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From: Bram Stolk <b.stolk@gmail.com>
Subject: Wildly different output sizes between subsequent perf record runs.
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 18:57:01 -0700
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If I do subsequent runs of 'perf record', both of which are identical,
I sometimes get wildly different output sizes.


https://gist.github.com/stolk/3666b2b4d4319764fdff4a2d4c619782

The binary did the same amount of work, and took the same amount of
time to execute.
This is with using perf from Ubuntu LTS.