Visa sells money for money, skimming off a percentage. CPUs spends cycles for features (doing useful work). Enabling frame pointers skims off a percentage of t

Visa sells money for money, skimming off a percentage. CPUs spends cycles for features (doing useful work). Enabling frame pointers skims off a percentage of the cycles. But it's the impact on useful work that matters, not how many cycles you lose. The cycles are just a means to an end. So x% of cycles is fundamentally incomparable to x% of money.