Comment 2 for bug 495140

Bringing oprofile 0.9.6 into Lucid is a good idea, I feel like this will solve more problems than it introduces. This version fixes many problems with profiling, including making it usable on 64bit machines (previous versions had a problem with a 32bit overflow, making profiling only useful on 32 bit machines).

I believe that we still need the postinst file that I proposed for merging here: https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~statik/ubuntu/lucid/oprofile/really-fix-jit-profiling/+merge/19925 in order to enable JIT profiling to work (this is needed by the team working on Unladen Swallow).