Thanks Nick. >From your screenshot, there are a lot of instances of "objects > Array", "objects > Object", etc. Is the a way to display the variable name used for those objects?
Also, what is the plan for making tools like the Memory view appear in a default install? In other words, without having to go to the Settings. I worry that users may not know to click on the Settings and just think that other browsers offer more tools than we do. Thanks, Jared On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 4:50 PM, Nick Fitzgerald <nfitzger...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Hi folks! > > Dominator trees give you fine-grained insight into memory retention. > > In a graph rooted by some node R, a node A is said to dominate B iff every > path to B starting from R passes through A. In the context of a heap graph, > another way to say this would be that A is retaining B: if the garbage > collector found A to be unreachable and eligible for reclaiming, than B > would also be unreachable and eligible for reclaiming. > > We also use this to calculate the "true" memory cost of a node in the heap > graph. This is the "retained size" and contrasts with the naive "shallow > size". For example, imagine a large binary tree where there are no outside > references into subtrees, only to the root. The root node itself has a > small shallow size: a left branch pointer, a value, and a right branch > pointer. However, it is retaining the whole rest of this large tree's > structure, and so its retained size is significant. > > Here is a screenshot of the dominator tree (combined with allocation stack > tracking) in action to debug the memory overhead of loading large source > files in a CodeMirror editor: http://i.imgur.com/sGsVJb9.png > > And here is a reminder of how to enable to memory tool within the > devtools: http://i.imgur.com/hEPTqrT.png > > If you would like to use this tool for the whole runtime rather than > scoped to a single tab, use the browser toolbox. Here are instructions for > enabling and using the browser toolbox: > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Browser_Toolbox > > Please try it out, give me your feedback, and file bugs in the "Firefox" > product and "Developer Tools: Memory" component! > > My thanks to the folks who reviewed patches for this feature: Jordan > Santell, Steve Fink, Boris Zbarsky, and Jim Blandy. > > Cheers, > > Nick > > _______________________________________________ > firefox-dev mailing list > firefox-...@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev > > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
