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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

It was also a virtual machine that lacked low-level hardware profiling capabilities, so I wasn't able to do cycle analysis to confirm that the 10% was entirely frame pointer-based. The overhead to walk DWARF is also too high, as it was designed for non-realtime use. The actual overhead depends on your workload. So what's next?

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