Chris Quenelle is a tools developer at Oracle Corp. He's worked on performance and debugging tools at Sun and Oracle for over 15 years. He reads comic books and science fiction, and has more tivos than he can keep track of.

 

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Enterprise versus The Developer

Note: I’m just an engineer at Sun. What follows is my own personal perspective, and not to be taken as Sun’s official opinion in any way. To the best of my knowledge I’m not giving away any trade secrets, but I am speaking frankly about Sun’s business model.

I attended an all-hands meeting with Rich [...]

September 18th, 2006 | Category: Developer Tools, OpenSolaris | Leave a comment

Graphical display of thread synchronization

One of the things that’s really hard about debugging threaded programs is tracking down which threads own which locks, and figuring out which locks they are supposed to own. In other words, synchronization bugs. The most difficult symptom to debug is data corruption, because it’s very hard to track down exactly where things start to [...]

September 11th, 2006 | Category: Debugging, Developer Tools | Leave a comment