​On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 8:57 PM, Nicholas Nethercote <n.netherc...@gmail.com
> wrote:

> Memory reporting as done for about:memory is quite different to the memory
> profiling done for devtools.
>
> Here's how memory reporting works in SpiderMonkey: we iterate over every
> cell in the GC heap, and measure any malloc'd things hanging of those
> cells. That's it. It's not at all a standard GC type tracing algorithm
> because it treats reachable and unreachable cells identically. It's simple
> and works well and I don't want to change it.
>

​Sure -- and I'm not proposing changes to about:memory in Firefox. I'm
talking about memory reporting in Servo.​

​Cheers,

Nick​
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