class Flamegraph::Sampler

Public Class Methods

collect(fidelity=0.5) { || ... } click to toggle source
# File lib/flamegraph/sampler.rb, line 2
def self.collect(fidelity=0.5)
  backtraces = []
  done = false

  t = Thread.current
  thread = Thread.new do
    until done
      backtraces << t.backtrace_locations

      # On my machine using Ruby 2.0 this give me excellent fidelity of stack trace per 1.2ms
      #   with this fidelity analysis becomes very powerful
      sleep (fidelity / 1000.0)
    end
  end

  begin
    yield
  ensure
    done = true
    thread.join
  end

  backtraces
end