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Computer Scientists Invent an Efficient New Way to Count (www.quantamagazine.org)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So this is probably useful for statistics collectors in DBMSes, used for planning queries. Any other use cases jump to mind?

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[–] [email protected] 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.

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