Any interest in detailed GC traces

Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Jul 12 04:06:09 PDT 2014


On Saturday, 12 July 2014 at 03:54:59 UTC, safety0ff wrote:
> I found this link on reddit: 
> http://dave.cheney.net/2014/07/11/visualising-the-go-garbage-collector 
> and I was wondering if there was interest in having D's GC 
> output detailed trace information.
>
> I was thinking perhaps collecting data and then writing it as a 
> json file when the process exits.
>
> Thoughts?

Would definitely like this. I even think something like this 
should be built in.
(now if possible, it'd also be good to have a way to get 
Massif-like stats
(i.e. which line has allocated how much at which moment), but 
that might take some work)


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