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The current Hot Spots UI works well when the method in question shows up once in back/forward references; however, if the method shows up in hundreds of different places (e.g. Object.hashCode()) and only a few of them are problematic then the current interface makes it impossible to track down the culprit. Proposal: Users should be able to expand Hot Spot entries and get a list of references sorted by decreasing Self/Total time. They could then right click on individual entries and click "Show in Forward/Back Calls".
Seems like how the Reverse Calls view works in the new profiler.