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Rational PurifyPlus

Features and benefits

	PurifyPlus for Windows	PurifyPlus for Linux and UNIX	Rational PurifyPlus Enterprise*
Memory corruption detection	C/C++	C/C++	C/C++
Memory leak detection	Java™, C/C++, .NET	Java**, C/C++	Java, C/C++, .NET
Performance profiling	Java, C/C++, .NET, VB6	Java**, C/C++	Java, C/C++, .NET
Code coverage analysis	Java, C/C++, .NET, VB6	Java**, C/C++	Java, C/C++, .NET, VB6

Rational PurifyPlus Enterprise Edition is a bundling of PurifyPlus for Windows and PurifyPlus for Linux and UNIX. For the features and benefits specific to each platform, visit the features and benefits page for each edition.

** Rational PurifyPlus for Linux and UNIX supports Java on Sun Solaris only.

*IBM Rational PurifyPlus for Windows*
Feature	Description	Benefit
Memory corruption and leak detection	Automatically pinpoints hard-to-find bugs	Improved execution reliability
Application performance profiling	Highlights application performance bottlenecks	Identifies portions of code subject to performance optimization
Code coverage analysis	Identifies untested code	Avoid users being the first to exercise functionality
Unique instrumentation techniques	Instruments code at the byte or object level	No recompilation or re-linking is needed to analyze your code
Server-side Java support	Install PurifyPlus on your Web server to analyze Java Server Pages (JSP) and Java servlets	Improve reliability and performance of server code as well as client applications
Runs directly inside leading IDEs, as well as stand-alone	PurifyPlus installs and operates directly within Visual Studio .NET, and Visual Studio .NET 2003	No switching back and forth between different tools with different user interfaces Provides for a more cohesive, more productive development experience Test and analyze your code as it is being created Extends your development experience with these IDEs to include runtime analysis Stand-alone operation offers flexibility in how to perform runtime analysis
Comprehensive programming language support	Supports Microsoft's managed languages (VB.NET and C#) as well as the unmanaged languages (Visual C/C++ and VB)	PurifyPlus provides the only runtime analysis tool you need for all of your Windows-based application development
Selective instrumentation	Allows you to select which modules of an application to analyze	Test only the modules you want without having to instrument the whole application Choose only the components for which you are responsible Provides greater flexibility for creating the test environment Makes the data collection part of runtime analysis much easier

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*IBM Rational PurifyPlus for Linux and UNIX*
Feature	Description	Benefit
Memory corruption and leak detection	Automatically pinpoints hard-to-find bugs	Improved execution reliability
Application performance profiling	Highlights application performance bottlenecks	Identifies portions of code subject to performance optimization
Code coverage analysis	Identifies untested code	Avoid users being the first to exercise functionality
Unique instrumentation techniques	Instruments code at the byte or object level	No recompilation or re-linking is needed to analyze your code

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