Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by brendangregg 3407 days ago
Please quantify the speedup (I've found this before, but it's never been a significant issue). Eliminating unnecessary work is great, but what are we really talking about here? Use a CPU flamegraph, Ctrl-F and search for stat functions. It'll quantify the total on the bottom right.
1 comments

Oh, and another page that recommends strace without warning about overheads. Dangerous.