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Aponax commented on Flame Graphs: Making the opaque obvious (2017)   tech.popdata.org/Flame-Gr... · Posted by u/davikr
zubspace · a year ago
Do colors have any significance in those flame graphs? It's unfortunate that a post about them does not mention anything about colors. If you look at at the examples, there are bars, which have the same length, but the colors look random to me.
Aponax · a year ago
Yes they are random. See the blog about the inventor of the flame graph, how we know them today

> Neelakanth and Roch's visualizations used completely random colors to differentiate frames. I thought it looked nicer to narrow the color palette, and picked just warm colors initially as it explained why the CPUs were "hot" (busy). Since it resembled flames, it quickly became known as flame graphs.

https://www.brendangregg.com/flamegraphs.html

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