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PolarSignals is specifically discussed in the linked threads, and they conclude that their approach is not good enough for perf reasons.

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Curious to hear more about this. Full disclosure: I designed and implemented .eh_frame unwinding when I worked at Polar Signals.

I think I might have confused two unrelated posts. The one that references Polar Signals is this one:

https://gitlab.com/freedesktop-sdk/freedesktop-sdk/-/issues/...

So not a perf issue there, but they don't think the workflow is suitable for whole-system profiling. Perf issues were in the context of `perf` using DWARF:

https://gitlab.com/freedesktop-sdk/freedesktop-sdk/-/issues/...

Oh nice, I can't find that - can you post a link?

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