[vtkusers] Best Mac development environment?

[Sean McBride]

On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:27:12 +0100, Bryn Lloyd said:

>The XCode package also includes some nice tools, like _Shark_, which 
>allows profiling your code (or any program, without having to 
>recompile). It provides a nice UI to view how much time you have spent 
>where.

Actually, Shark is also gone on current versions of Xcode.  The replacement is called Instruments.app and it's better in many ways (but worse in others).  It's still an excellent profiler though!

>Another tool, which is now available on the Mac is _valgrind_. It allows 
>memory leak detection, memory access violation debugging etc. You can 
>get it via MacPorts:
>http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=name&substr=valgrind

Note that if you are on Mac OS X 10.7, you must use valgrind 3.7 or newer.

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