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Seth Brenith authored
A couple of customers have asked about using devtools to get information about temporary allocations, with the goal of reducing GC time and/or peak memory usage. Currently, the sampling heap profiler reports only objects which are still alive at the end of the profiling session. In this change, I propose adding configuration options when starting the sampling heap profiler so that it can optionally include information about objects which were discarded by the GC before the end of the profiling session. A user could run the sampling heap profiler in several different modes depending on their goals: 1. To find memory leaks or determine which functions contribute most to steady-state memory consumption, the current default mode is best. 2. To find functions which cause large temporary memory spikes or large GC pauses, the user can request data about both live objects and those collected by major GC. 3. To tune for minimal GC activity in latency-sensitive applications like real-time audio processing, the user can request data about every allocation, including objects collected by major or minor GC. 4. I'm not sure why anybody would want data about objects collected by minor GC and not objects collected by major GC, but it's also a valid flags combination. Change-Id: If55d5965a1de04fed3ae640a02ca369723f64fdf Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/v8/v8/+/3868522Reviewed-by: Michael Lippautz <mlippautz@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Camillo Bruni <cbruni@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Simon Zünd <szuend@chromium.org> Commit-Queue: Seth Brenith <seth.brenith@microsoft.com> Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/main@{#83202}
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