You've done a fantastic job of making it more stable - thank you. I'll make
sure to flag you on any more synchronization issues I run into.

On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 3:04 PM, David Major <dma...@mozilla.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The Gecko Profiler used to be notoriously unstable on 64-bit Windows. (If
> you're curious: it's mostly because the unwinding rules for Win64 require
> the system libraries to do a lot of synchronization, which our stack walker
> would often call in ways that could deadlock.)
>
> Ever since the last Quantum Flow work week, I've been working on fixing
> these issues. As of this week's nightlies, all of the hangs that have been
> reported to me are resolved fixed. There might be some rare corner cases
> still remaining, but I'm confident that the most frequent problems have
> been addressed.
>
> So my ask is: if you've previously been deterred from using the profiler
> on Win64 builds, please give it another try! Flag me on any issues you find
> and/or mark them blocking bug 1366030. I will treat these bugs with high
> priority since I want to keep Quantum activities unblocked.
>
> Thanks!
>
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