The Return of the Frame Pointers
Brendan Gregg
MARCH 16, 2024
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. Back-end servers. and we may have been flying close to the edge of hardware cache warmth, where adding a bit more instructions caused a big drop.
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