The Return of the Frame Pointers
Brendan Gregg
MARCH 16, 2024
This technique saves two instructions in the prologue and epilogue and makes one additional general-purpose register (%rbp) available." 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.
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