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Computer Scientists Invent an Efficient New Way to Count (www.quantamagazine.org)
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[–] porgamrer 2 points 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.