"How did we ever analyze performance before Flame Graphs?" This new visualization invented by Brendan can help you quickly understand application and kernel performance, especially CPU usage, where stacks (call graphs) can be sampled and then visualized as an interactive flame graph. Flame Graphs are now used for a growing variety of targets: for applications and kernels on Linux, SmartOS, Mac OS
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