Benefits of Memory Tools

The various benefits of the memory tool are:

• Multiple Views: The tool provides a pie chart, summary, containment, and many other views, which is useful to visualize the memory consumption of the tool as the developers can get the necessary information at a glance.
• Simple UI: The UI is simple to use, and the data is organized in a tabular format. There is a very low learning curve when using this tool, and users can get the hang of it pretty easily.
• Option for garbage collection: You also have the option to manually activate the garbage collector in case the browser can find the unused object to be garbage collected.
• Identify Memory Leaks: The memory information about JS objects and DOM nodes can be used to check if there are any detached elements left out that are not garbage collected, as they can create memory leaks.
• Options to select a JS VM instance: You can select from various JS instances running on the web page for profiling. This helps to inspect the memory of frames used in the web page.

The Memory Tool in Edge allows you to capture the memory heap and provides various views to view that information. The tool provides various profiles for capturing web page memory information. The information mainly consists of retained size and shallow size, which provide information about the object’s actual size and the size memory after garbage collection.