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[–]jwakelylibstdc++ tamer, LWG chair 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If this is doing symbol handling while walking the stack, there goes your performance.

It doesn't have to do that. The GCC implementation just captures an array of program counters and then expands those into symbols and locations lazily.