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+# Profiling
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+* Compile Times: append ```-Ztimings``` to cargo builds
+* Runtime Flame Graph: ```cargo flamegraph --example EXAMPLE_NAME```
+    * built on top of perf, no instrumentation required
+* Runtime Instrumentation:
+    * https://github.com/glennw/thread_profiler
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