How is HotSpot profiled and debugged?

[Andrew Haley]

On 6/23/23 11:21, Julian Waters wrote:
> The question ?I have is: How do HotSpot developers debug and profile HotSpot in cases where bugs or performance hits like this occur? I don't have much experience working with HotSpot as of yet, so I don't quite know where to start in tackling this issue.

I'd start by attaching a debugger and seeing WTAF the program is doing. But that's
obvious, surely?

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