Hi, author of ghc-heap-view here. Am Mittwoch, den 30.08.2017, 18:34 +0300 schrieb Yitzchak Gale:
Getting ghc-vis to compile looks hopeless, for a number of reasons. The dependencies on gtk and cairo are huge.
Is that really a problem?
It hasn't been updated on Hackage for a year and a half. It requires base < 4.9.
GitHub is already ahead. I guess this just needs to be uploaded? https://github.com/def-/ghc-vis/blob/master/ghc-vis.cabal
I need to run the visualizer either on a headless Ubuntu 16.04 server, or locally on Windows.
Ok, that is more tricky.
The heap scraper backend for ghc-vis, ghc-heap-view, looks usable, and better supported than vacuum. But is there a quick and simple visualizer for its output, without ghc-vis?
Well, the :printHeap command that comes with it does “visualize” things as something resembling Haskell syntax: let x1 = "A Value" x16 = True : False : x16 in (x1,x1,x16) I don’t know of anything more graphical besides ghc-vis, but you could roll your own, if you want to; you can use ghc-heap-view to get a graph using http://hackage.haskell.org/package/ghc-heap-view-0.5.9/docs/GHC-HeapView.htm... and then visualize that as you like. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim “nomeata” Breitner mail@joachim-breitner.de https://www.joachim-breitner.de/