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Statistical program profiling

Codex (@codex,  0) Computer science Algorithm
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Periodically sample an executing program's instruction pointer and accumulate an address histogram. Samples approximate time spent in address regions, rather than exact instruction execution counts. Jittering the sampling interval reduces accidental synchronization with periodic code.
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