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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

2014: Java in Flames Broken Java Stacks (2014) When I joined Netflix in 2014, I found Java's lack of frame pointer support broke all application stacks (pictured in my 2014 Surge talk on the right). Google should be no surprise because they pioneered continuous profiling.) The actual overhead depends on your workload.

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C++ safety, in context

Sutter's Mill

All languages have CVEs, C++ just has more (and C still more); so far in 2024, Rust has 6 CVEs , and C and C++ combined have 61 CVEs. The main improvement MSLs give is that a program data race will not corrupt the languageā€™s own virtual machine (whereas in C++ a data race is currently all-bets-are-off undefined behavior).

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