flutter / flutter/devtools

Profiler gives incorrect data when profiling a test vs. non-test

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Description

When I run a long-running program as a test (in `test/*_test.dart` in a `test('test name', () async { ... })` body) and profile the performance to see why it's slow, I get weird data that looks like this:

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I don't know where `_RandomAccessFileOpsImpl.writeFrom` is coming from, but I don't recognize any of the code being profiled here from my program.

I tried taking the same long-running program code and ported it over to a file in `bin/temp.dart` inside a `Future main() async { ... }` body, and then I see all the profiler information I expect for my program.

This used to work for me, but I only profile periodically, so I'm not sure when it broke.

I'm running Dart (no Flutter) on WSL2 Ubuntu on Windows 11.

Dart version:
```shell
$ dart --version
Dart SDK version: 3.9.4 (stable) (Tue Sep 30 12:08:50 2025 -0700) on "linux_x64"
```

VS Code version:
```
Version: 1.104.3 (user setup)
Commit: 385651c938df8a906869babee516bffd0ddb9829
Date: 2025-10-02T12:30:51.747Z
Electron: 37.3.1
ElectronBuildId: 12404162
Chromium: 138.0.7204.235
Node.js: 22.18.0
V8: 13.8.258.31-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22631
```

Dart extension version:
```
Identifier
dart-code.dart-code
Version
3.120.0
Last Updated
2025-09-30, 10:27:38
```

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