[WIP] src: v8 snapshot command
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Neat! Just in case, you may find this helpful: https://github.com/indutny/core2dump (if it is still relevant) |
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I found indutny/core2dump when working on this, but couldn't make it work :( (probably because so many things have changed in V8 in the last two years) |
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It would be cool to be able to expose a |
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Closing since I haven't had the time to move this forward. If anyone wants to work on it, feel free to pick it up! (Although I think this will be much easier to accomplish once our JS API is out of experimental). |
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DO NOT LAND YET
[P.S.: The code is a mess right now, I'm opening a PR to get feedback on how the feature should look like]
This PR introduces a new command to create a V8 snapshot from a core dump. Right now the snapshot is not fully functional, but it works on Chrome DevTools. The goal is to enable the use of Chrome DevTools alongside llnode.
We still need to address #195 and #197 before making it work properly. Right now it can be used with the command
v8 snapshot, which will create acore.heapsnapshotin the current working directory. The generated file can be open by Chrome DevTools, but it doesn't show a list of retainers yet.