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Flame Graphs: Making the opaque obvious (2017)
With a flame graph style profile of your application, you can spot poor performance hotspots even at a glance
A Real-World Example You can frame the following story as an “easy win” or “spotting a mistake.” In any case, here’s how I recently used flame graphs to solve a real problem in my code. Recently, after a while of this solution being in production, I decided to return to the “CPS takes a long time to run” issue, and I started by generating a flame graph. Hopefully this post demonstrated how flame graphs can be a powerful tool to quickly understand the execution profile of your program and identify trouble spots.
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