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Here's some interesting links I've found on the web that may be useful for this project

For interactive flamegraph interaction

• http://martinspier.io/d3-flame-graph/

Useful example of inspecting remote processes (used in py-spy iirc)

• https://github.com/benfred/remoteprocess

Other open source continuous profilers (seems to be mostly Go based)

• https://github.com/pyroscope-io/pyroscope
• https://github.com/Granulate/gprofiler (perf based)

Rust profiling

• https://github.com/tikv/pprof-rs

Some blog posts

• https://inspektor.cloud/blog/how-profiler-works/
• https://pyroscope.io/blog/ebpf-profiling-pros-cons/
• https://www.markhansen.co.nz/profiler-uis/ (a collection of different flamegraph UIs, nothing too groundbreaking here - was hoping to find some ascii flamegraphs intead)

For rust memory profiling, this is a place to look at

• https://github.com/nnethercote/dhat-rs/blob/master/src/lib.rs (I wonder if it'd be possible to do the same using bpf probes)

Usage of flamegraphs

• https://www.brendangregg.com/Slides/LISA13_Flame_Graphs.pdf (touches CPU, memory, IO, off cpu etc)

Fp (elf, dwarf) vs Orc https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/unwinding-stack-frame-pointers-and-orc

My kitchen sink of ideas

• terminal (curses/tui) based flamegraphs
• interactive call graph
• streaming flamegraph / timeline flamegraph
• integration with aws codeguru profiler https://github.com/awslabs/aws-sdk-rust/blob/0e6f17c335debcf8908b615399678479e9ff62e8/sdk/codeguruprofiler/README.md?plain=1 https://crates.io/crates/aws-sdk-codeguruprofiler/0.30.0

Other approaches to profiling

• https://developer.mantidproject.org/ProfilingWithValgrind.html
• https://gernotklingler.com/blog/gprof-valgrind-gperftools-evaluation-tools-application-level-cpu-profiling-linux/
• https://www.gabriel.urdhr.fr/2014/05/23/flamegraph/#using-flamegraph-with-the-poor-mans-profiler-based-on-gdb
• https://github.com/markhpc/uwpmp https://github.com/libunwind/libunwind/blob/master/src/elfxx.c#L271-L274
• https://nnethercote.github.io/perf-book/profiling.html
• https://www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2022/11/29/profiling-without-frame-pointers
• https://psy-lob-saw.blogspot.com/2016/02/why-most-sampling-java-profilers-are.html
• https://github.com/async-profiler/async-profiler
• https://github.com/grafana/agent/