Tag
allocation-profiling
- Mar 17, 2026 Attributing Allocations to Call Sites by Unwinding the Stack How a tracing allocator recovers the calling stack for each allocation, why frame-pointer chains fail in optimised code, and what a table-driven unwind costs per event. memory systems
- Jan 12, 2023 Sampling Allocation Profilers and the Statistics of Estimates How a profiler that records one allocation in a few thousand still reports accurate totals, why the sampling must be size-weighted, and how the confidence interval is computed. memory systems