Continuous Profiling: Where Have All the Cycles Gone?

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Beginning of paper
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Related Work
3. Data Analysis Examples
4. Data Collection System
5. Profiling Performance
6. Data Analysis Overview
7. Future Directions
8. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References