Bug#767756: glibc: Consider providing a libc build compiled with -fno-omit-frame-pointer to help with profiling

[Ralf Jung]

Hi all,

Fedora and Ubuntu [1] have now enabled frame pointers on amd64 by default, 
providing a great profiling experience out-of-the-box. I think it may be time 
for Debian to reconsider its position here; the performance overhead is very 
small and meanwhile this lack of frame pointers is preventing other, much more 
significant performance improvements by making it hard or impossible to properly 
profile applications.

[1]: 
https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-performance-engineering-with-frame-pointers-by-default

Kind regards,
Ralf