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diff --git a/deps/v8/tools/heap-stats/README.md b/deps/v8/tools/heap-stats/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..70083fe257 --- /dev/null +++ b/deps/v8/tools/heap-stats/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +# Heap Stats + +Heap stats is a HTML-based tool for visualizing V8-internal object statistics. +For example, the tool can be used to visualize how much heap memory is used for +maintaining internal state versus actually allocated by the user. + +The tool consumes log files produced by d8 (or Chromium) by passing +`--trace-gc-object-stats` or a trace captured using Chrome's tracing +infrastructure. Chrome trace files need to be unpacked before they can +be used though. + +Hosting requires a web server, e.g.: + + cd tools/heap-stats + python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000 |