Bug 109723 – Web Inspector: Should not let it's own memory usage show up in stats

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: INVALID
• Component: Web Inspector (Deprecated)

[Gregg Tavares]

Currently the memory timeline for a simple loop like

function init()
{
    var ref = window.setInterval(function() { draw(); }, 50);
}

function draw()
{
    return true
}

shows lots of memory usage. That memory usage is from dev tools which makes it kind of hard for developers to reason about their apps.

Is there some say devtools memory usage can be separated from user app memory usage? Switch allocators when entering dev tools code or switch kind of category that you can ignore for dev tools code?

See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14034107/does-javascript-setinterval-method-cause-memory-leak/

[Brian Burg]

Closing as invalid, as this bug pertains to the old inspector UI and/or its tests.
Please file a new bug (https://www.webkit.org/new-inspector-bug) if the bug/feature/issue is still relevant to WebKit trunk.