Java Concurrency (&c)

I finally got off of my lazy elbows and wrote a proof-of-concept sampling profiler for public consumption based on the Hotspot JVM's AsyncGetCallTrace interface. The benefit of using this interface to write a profiler is that it can gather stack traces asynchronously. This avoids the inaccuracies of only being able to profile code at safe points, and the overhead of having to stop the JVM to gather a stack trace. The result is a more accurate profiler that avoids the 10-20% overhead of something like hprof. For a more thorough explanation as to why this is interesting, see my 2010 writeup on the subject . Another feature of the profiler is that it will tell you what stack traces are being executed, rather than, like many sampling Java profilers, what stack traces could be executed. That is, with traditional profilers, if you stop the VM and ask it for stack traces, it will tell you all of the stack traces from all of the threads that are not currently blocked. This prof...