Mark Marron - Visualizing and Understanding Heap Structure

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[Broken External Image]:http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/ch9/5/7/9/5/5/5/markmarronheap_85_ch9.pngIn this video, Mark Marron, who is visiting the Research in Software Engineering group (RiSE) for the summer, describes some work and gives a short demo on a technique for visualizing and understanding a program’s runtime memory structure (which data structures are built, how big they are, how they are connected, etc.).

During the demo, he shows how the technique can be used to visualize a 150K object heap dump to quickly find out which parts are using the most memory, which also helps us learn about how the program is using these objects (including finding a “quadtree” that is not really a tree).

• Marks home page: http://software.imdea.org/~marron/
  
• Paper on this topic: http://software.imdea.org/~marron/papers/heap_debug.pdf
  

The Research in Software Engineering team (RiSE) coordinates Microsofts research in Software Engineering in Redmond, USA.

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