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. Here's my guesses: 2029: Ubuntu and Fedora release new versions with SFrames for OS components (including libc) and ditches frame pointers again.
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