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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

2034+: Beyond Frame Pointers There's more than one way to walk a stack. We'll have had five years of frame pointer-based performance wins and new innovations that make use of user space stacks, and will hit the ground running with SFrames. Java, for example, has the -XX:+PreserveFramePointer option.

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