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Convert sampling-profiler stack samples into a trace of start and end events

A confirmed Anthropic live-coding question that looks exotic and reduces to one operation: diff consecutive call stacks against their common prefix. The recursion edge case is where strong candidates separate from finished-but-wrong ones.

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A confirmed Anthropic live-coding question that looks exotic and reduces to one operation: diff consecutive call stacks against their common prefix. The recursion edge case is where strong candidates separate from finished-but-wrong ones.

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