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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

This technique saves two instructions in the prologue and epilogue and makes one additional general-purpose register (%rbp) available." 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).

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