Flame Graphs: Making the Opaque Obvious
With a flame graph style profile of your application, you can spot poor performance hotspots even at a glance Sometimes you suspect that your application runs substantially slower than you believe it should, but you can’t find the slow parts just by intuition or putting in simple benchmarks. You could waste a lot of time hunting for the issue, especially when you’re not so familiar with the source code. What if there actually aren’t any easy optimizations to be made - how would you know? Or, wh...
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