ui: Heap Dump Explorer — multi-trace baseline diff mode Adds baseline / current / diff workflow to the Heapdump Explorer plugin. The user can pool one or more reference traces, pick a dump from any pooled trace as the active baseline, and the Classes / Strings / Arrays / Bitmaps / Dominators / Overview tabs render side-by-side current vs baseline values with classified delta status (NEW / REMOVED / GREW / SHRANK / UNCHANGED). Architecture: * Each pooled baseline trace owns its own WasmEngineProxy (separate Web Worker) — a single sqlite ATTACH across workers is impossible, so each side runs its filter independently and the merge happens in JS (diff/diff_rows.ts). Outer-join over ~20K x 20K rows is cheap (~10ms). * In-flight diff fetches snapshot the active primary + baseline refs before they await; if either ref differs after, the merge is skipped. Same check in catch silently abandons fetches whose engine was disposed mid-flight. * The Overview cache keys on (engine identity, filter SQL); both primary and baseline engines need their own cached entry, and passing the primary's dumpFilterSql() to the baseline engine would filter on (upid, ts) values that exist in the primary trace but not the baseline (silent zero-row result). * Tabs widget keys on (primary upid+ts, baseline trace+upid+ts); selection changes remount the diff view, the snapshot guard handles the tail of the previous run. * Status classification comes from row presence, never from value==0 (a class with dominated_size=0 in baseline but present in both snapshots must be UNCHANGED, not NEW). * Hprof has no real pid (trace_processor reports 0); the header and popup labels render "Java heap dump" instead of "pid 0" so the selector reads naturally for both pftrace and hprof inputs. Change-Id: I2f69614c7d87091b3b301ff51e110b70e2738a40
Perfetto is an open-source suite of SDKs, daemons and tools which use tracing to help developers understand the behaviour of complex systems and root-cause functional and performance issues on client and embedded systems.
It is a production-grade tool that is the default tracing system for the Android operating system and the Chromium browser.
Perfetto is not a single tool, but a collection of components that work together:
Perfetto was designed to be a versatile and powerful tracing system for a wide range of use cases.
ftrace, allowing you to visualize scheduling, syscalls, interrupts, and custom kernel tracepoints on a timeline.chrome://tracing. Use it to debug and root-cause issues in the browser, V8, and Blink.We‘ve designed our documentation to guide you to the right information as quickly as possible, whether you’re a newcomer to performance analysis or an experienced developer.
New to tracing? If you're unfamiliar with concepts like tracing and profiling, start here:
Ready to dive in? Our “Getting Started” guide is the main entry point for all users. It will help you find the right tutorials and documentation for your specific needs:
Want the full overview? For a comprehensive look at what Perfetto is, why it's useful, and who uses it, see our main documentation page:
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