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Twenty Years of Valgrind (2022)

It has been twenty years since Valgrind 1.0 was released.

The Cambridge Computer Laboratory is literally next door to a Microsoft Research office, and I was soon interacting with the people there working on the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. Not long after learning about Valgrind I realised its dynamic binary instrumentation could provide a more robust foundation for a cache profiling tool. Speaking of software quality, I think it’s fitting that I now work full time on Rust, a systems programming language that didn’t exist when Valgrind was created, but which basically prevents all the problems that Memcheck detects.

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