Rob Palmer📣 Debugging memory problems in Chrome DevTools is now super fast ⚡
José Dapena has made heap snapshots *much* quicker based on investigations by Jason Williams & Ashley Claymore and funding from TechAtBloomberg 🎉
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The story began when Ashley Claymore was investigating a memory leak. Taking the heap snapshot took 10 minutes 😯
He knew something was not right and passed the ball to our performance team. Jason Williams investigated further using the Windows Performance Analyzer 🕵️
Luckily TechAtBloomberg have a decade-long collaboration with Igalia that means we can call on the best folk in the industry to solve these problems for all of us 🤝
José Dapena took the ball and scored two major wins to reduce heap capture times via better hashing and caching 👍
These performance wins when capturing heap snapshots using the Memory tab in Chrome DevTools can range between 2x and 100x depending on the use-case 🔥
You can benefit from this improved debugging performance today in Chromium 115 or Node 20.5 which was published one week ago 🎉