async-profiler/async-profiler v1.5

Wall-clock and timer-based profiling

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v1.5

Features

• Wall-clock profiler: -e wall
• -e itimer mode for systems that do not support perf_events
• Native stack traces on macOS
• Support for Zing runtime, except allocation profiling

Improvements

• --all-user option to allow profiling with restricted
  perf_event_paranoid (contributed by @jpbempel)
• -a option to annotate method names
• Improved attach to containerized and chroot'ed JVMs
• Native function profiling now accepts non-public symbols
• Better mapping of Java thread names (contributed by @KirillTim)

Changes

• Changed default profiling engine on macOS
• Fixed the order of stack frames in JFR format