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Damir Franusic •

Great article. I spent the last 8 years doing only c++ network programming. Then after thinking things through, I thought to myself that this is overly complex for what I'm doing and OOP is something I can live without. Also, I can easily replicate it with function pointers which I also use in C++ anyway.

This was just a quick intro, you should stick with C++ if you like it; you wrote a great post about it anyway. Now, here's the reason I'm writing this comment; there's an alternative to Valgrind which you could consider using once you get more acquainted with C++. Valgrind incurrs 20x slowdon or was 10x I don't rememeber honestly, but it can get quite slow and eat up a huge amount of memory. The other alternative that doesn't cause any noticeable slowdown are gcc/clang fsanitize methods

gcc -ggdb -o a.out a.cpp \
-fsanitize=address \
-fno-omit-frame-pointer

When I first started coding in C++ I also usw Valgrind; not even sure if fsanitize methods were available back then.

Happy programming and congrats on this great post.

DF

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Ben Lovy •

Ah, thank you for the tip! I didn't know about that flag.

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Damir Franusic •

It's a series of flags, check out the man pages of gcc/clang or look it up online.

Good luck with segfaults 😉