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by jsnell 360 days ago
It doesn't seem like a very fresh insight though. I did exactly that for sb-sprof in 2006 [0], and doubt it was the first time anyone had that idea. It falls out pretty much automatically from having both a bump allocator and a sampling profiler.

[0] https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2006-05-14-statistical...