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Finding a profiler that works, damnit

Finding a profiler that works, damnit

Posted Mar 24, 2010 17:48 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Finding a profiler that works, damnit by foom
Parent article: KVM, QEMU, and kernel project management

Oh crap, you're right, of course. I plead temporary insanity caused by hours of sitting through mind-numbing presentations on stuff I already knew.

So it's call the unwinder or nothing, really. Unfortunately the job of figuring out what the call stack looks like really *is* quite expensive :/ any effort should presumably go into optimizing libunwind...


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