Developers' Toolkit Supplement Enterprise Toolkit Tru64 UNIX OpenVMS Java Solutions High Performance Technical Computing Click on a question to see the answer. If you have a question that is not listed here and need an immediate answer, contact Visual Threads support . A. Visual Threads is a tool that lets you analyze your multithreaded application for potential logic and performance problems. Visual Threads can be used with any application written in any language. A. Visual Threads collects detailed information about the significant state changes that occur during the running of your multithreaded application.
Visual Threads can even detect potential race conditions before they cause an error in the code.
The race detection capability is available only on Tru64 UNIX systems. A. Visual Threads provides a full set of built-in default rules that you can use to automatically validate your application's use of threads. Every rule is associated with a particular analysis event, which is triggered when a rule detects a violation condition. When Visual Threads reports a problem, the dialog box contains a button that is linked to a Visual Threads help topic specific to that problem. The help topic provides a detailed description of the problem, and suggestions on how to correct it.