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Re:S p a m m y s y s C a l l s in strace dumps by andikleen3 on Friday January 06, 2023 @04:41AM (#34272815)
An eternity ago a particular Linux kernel developer gave a series of "Why user space sucks" talks at Linux conferences. It was just going through strace logs and making fun of particularly bad examples.

Here's one instance: https://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2006/ols2006v1-pages-441-450....

At some point I stared a lot at instruction level traces with Processor Trace or LBRs and usually I found some bad sequences in many programs, where things are implemented very inefficiently.

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Re:S p a m m y s y s C a l l s in strace dumps by drewg123 on Friday January 06, 2023 @11:37AM (#34276901)
That talk is brilliant, and matches my experience unfortunately..
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Re:S p a m m y s y s C a l l s in strace dumps by bear24rw on Friday January 06, 2023 @10:39PM (#34284913)
Do you know if there are videos of those talks posted anywhere?
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Re:S p a m m y s y s C a l l s in strace dumps by thewisenerd on Saturday January 07, 2023 @09:13AM (#34288104)
while I wait for a video from 2006 to miraculously survive, some googling gave me these, though:

http://web.archive.org/web/20070223102951/http://www.linuxsy...

https://lwn.net/Articles/192214/

https://www.linux.com/news/day-two-ols-why-userspace-sucks-a...

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