firefox-devtools/profiler

Support node's heap profiling

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#4,461 opened on Feb 8, 2023

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Node can output a heap profile file when run with --heap-prof. It would be good to be able to import it into the profiler UI. Here is an example: Heap.20230208.132746.551039.0.002.heapprofile.gz

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Study how the profiler imports existing profile formats (e.g., Gecko profiles) and adapt the parsing logic to handle Node heap profiles. Look at the provided example file to understand its structure.
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