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• on object allocation, a stack-trace is taken. This takes significant time and generates some garbage.
• in order to lessen performance impact of taking stack-traces, sampling is used (i.e. not every object allocation is recorded). This leads to inaccurate profiling results.

As a result, we get both an memory allocation profilers leave us with both inaccurate profiling results and an impact on the profiled application.

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