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Visual Lint 2.0.2.102 has been released

Friday 12th December, 2008


The changes in this version include:

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Riverblade can now supply PC-lint licences

Monday 8th December, 2008


We are pleased to be able to announce that we have now come to an agreement with Gimpel Software (the PC-lint vendor) to be able to resell PC-lint 9.0 licences.

As of today, if you place an order online store for any full Visual Lint full licences (not upgrades), you will be able to order the corresponding PC-lint 9.0 Workstation licences at a 5% discount.

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Turbocharge PC-lint Analysis with Incredibuild

Sunday 7th December, 2008


If you have ever studied the wealth of add-in products available for Microsoft Visual Studio, you will probably have come across IncrediBuild - a product which accelerates builds by distributing them to idle machines on your network. In essence it is a grid computing engine with a Visual Studio front-end.

A few months ago Stan Jaffe of Keithley Instruments contacted us to enquire about the possibility of using IncrediBuild to accelerate PC-lint analysis tasks initiated by Visual Lint, and put us in touch with Ron Lehrer of Xoreax (the vendor behind the IncrediBuild product) to discuss the options for doing so.

I'm pleased to say that this collaboration has now borne fruit and that we will shortly be releasing a build of Visual Lint 2.0 which supports distributed analysis using the IncrediBuild XGE Interfaces Extension Package:

Accelerating code analysis using IncrediBuild
Accelerating code analysis using IncrediBuild.

To someone used to the potentially long analysis time of PC-lint, the capabilities of this integrated solution are quite honestly astounding. Analysing the complete Visual Lint 2.0 codebase (approx 178,000 lines of code in 829 files organised into 25 projects) on my normal development system (a dual core 2.2GHz Opteron server) normally takes over 3 hours using LintProject, and 1 hour 46 mins using Visual Lint.

However, with just 5 agents (3 dual core desktop systems and a couple of rather average laptops) an integrated Visual Lint/IncrediBuild solution was able to cut this down to 32 minutes!

That's astonishing enough, but I have no doubt that if we added additional agents we could get the total analysis time for this solution down to under 15 minutes. Quite honestly we're rather stunned. We hope you will find this to be as revolutionary as we do!

Our thanks to Keithley Instruments and Xoreax for working with us in the development of this very existing new capability for Visual Lint. IncrediBuild integration will be available in Visual Lint Enterprise Edition from Visual Lint 2.0.2.102 onwards.

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