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Reducing Go execution tracer overhead with frame pointer unwinding
The Go Execution Tracer (aka runtime/trace) was designed to achieve low enough overhead to be usable on “a server in production serving live traffic”. This is achieved by writing events into per-P buffers, using RDTSC for timestamps, and encoding into a relatively efficient binary format.
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Systems & PerformanceSoftware Engineering2023
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 31, 2023 | Reducing Go execution tracer overhead with frame pointer unwinding by felixge | 100 | 8 |
