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+Valgrind is an award-winning suite of tools for debugging and profiling Linux
+programs. With the tools that come with Valgrind, you can automatically detect
+many memory management and threading bugs, avoiding hours of frustrating
+bug-hunting, making your programs more stable. You can also perform detailed
+profiling, to speed up and reduce memory use of your programs.
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+The Valgrind distribution currently includes four tools: a memory error
+detector, a cache (time) profiler, a call-graph profiler, and a heap (space)
+profiler. It runs on the following platforms: X86/Linux, AMD64/Linux,
+PPC32/Linux, PPC64/Linux.
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