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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

Back-end servers. Here's my guesses: 2029: Ubuntu and Fedora release new versions with SFrames for OS components (including libc) and ditches frame pointers again. What about Linux on devices where there is no chance of profiling or debugging, like electric toothbrushes? (I Sure, compile without frame pointers. So what's next?

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