• southernbrewer@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    So this is probably useful for statistics collectors in DBMSes, used for planning queries. Any other use cases jump to mind?

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      6 months ago

      I thought it sounded kind of similar to statistical CPU profiling, where you’re sampling the program counter of a given thread to see which functions actually use the most time. Maybe this idea could help increase the sample rate.