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Monday Dec 17, 2007
Call stack visualisation using dtrace
Nice demonstration of using dtrace to extract callstack information.
Posted at 11:12AM Dec 17, 2007 by Darryl Gove in Sun |
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Darryl Gove is a senior staff engineer in the Sun compiler team. He works on analysis and optimisation of applications and benchmarks for current and future architectures. He is the author of the books Solaris Application Programming, and The Developer's Edge, a contributor to the book OpenSPARC Internals and a regular source of articles for the Developer Portal.
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