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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

Only in extreme circumstances does the cost (in processor time and I-cache footprint) translate to a tangible benefit - circumstances which usually resort to hand-coded assembly anyway. You're just saving a pushl, movl, an series of operations that (for obvious reasons) is highly optimized on x86.

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