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For some scenarios it makes sense to define just one setting - Classes of interest - which defines both the root methods and instrumentation filter. Typical use case is when searching for a hot spot in custom code without knowing where it could be - the only known fact is the scope of packages/classes to search in.
Milestone cleanup: future->next
Almost the same is possible in the Methods/Defined classes mode.