ui: Heap Dump Explorer flamegraph diff with pprof-style coloring Adds same-trace baseline diffing to the Heap Dump Explorer flamegraph and colours it pprof-style: each node's fill is keyed on the signed, normalised change vs the baseline (green = smaller, grey = unchanged, red = larger; intensity by magnitude). Width can be |Δ| or current value; colour basis is absolute (Δ / max|Δ|) or relative (Δ / baseline, clamped). Same-trace path pairs by name-based path hash via _graph_scan!, with the intermediate CTEs forced through SQLite as MATERIALIZED so the final LEFT JOIN uses an automatic index (drops the cost from ~157 s to ~8 s natively on a real ~110 k-node system_server class tree). Cross-trace path (different baseline trace, different engine) pairs in JS by stable name-path and writes the paired rows back into the current engine as a TEMP TABLE the flamegraph SQL SELECTs from. The downstream value / colour-hint SQL is identical to the same-trace path. The diff legend (bottom-right of the flamegraph) paints a gradient from the same colour function the node fills use, with a standard Perfetto outlined Button label indicating the colour basis (absolute / relative).
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.
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