object-of-interest_davidbruant.md

Object of Interest

• Name : David Bruant
• Twitter : @DavidBruant
• Github : DavidBruant
• Website : https://longtermlaziness.wordpress.com/

Abstract

I gave a talk on Garbage Collection and got asked at the end "Is there a tool to visualize the object graph of a website at runtime?". I answered negatively at the time. Unsatisfied with what state-of-the-art browser devtools provide to analyze objects at runtime, I decided to built it (as a Firefox addon for starters).

In this talk, I'll briefly explain how Garbage Collection and the Mark-and-Sweep algorithm work in modern browsers. I'll explain what web developers should do to work well with the Garbage Collector and how they can use Object of Interest to better understand the JavaScript runtime and to find memory leaks in their websites.

Speaker Bio

David is a web developer. Passionate about the web ecosystem in general; web browsers, websites and JavaScript in particular. Also passionate about education, he occasionally contributes to the JavaScript section of MDN, do company training and teaches people around him.