backtrace-labs/poireau
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Poireau: a sampling allocation debugger
4 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 2 stories, 2 comments · first 2020-05-17 · latest 2025-05-22
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…why this would be useful: > Flagging old live (i.e., potentially immortal) allocations is easier ( https://github.com/backtrace-labs/poireau ) and more closely matches the goal of identifying why the heap grows instead of entering a steady…
comment by PuercoPop · 2025-05-22 · in Poireau: A Sampling Allocation Debugger -
…and a 128 bit output such that hardware failure is more likely than collisions. - poireau: https://github.com/backtrace-labs/poireau existing heap profilers are more intrusive (first, you have to replace the allocator), and, in long-lived…
comment by pkhuong · 2021-05-16 · in Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?