The Return of the Frame Pointers
Brendan Gregg
MARCH 16, 2024
This is also an win for continuous profilers (my employer, Intel, just announced one) as it makes customer adoption easier. 2005-2023: The winter of broken profilers However, the change was then applied to x86-64 (64-bit) as well, which had sixteen registers and didn't benefit so much from a seventeenth. What are frame pointers?
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