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   title="NEW - Web Inspector: The following program hangs the heap snapshot tool"
   href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163155">163155</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>Web Inspector: The following program hangs the heap snapshot tool
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          <th>Classification</th>
          <td>Unclassified
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>WebKit
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>WebKit Nightly Build
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>All
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          <td>All
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>Normal
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>P2
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>Web Inspector
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>webkit-unassigned&#64;lists.webkit.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>sbarati&#64;apple.com
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          <th>CC</th>
          <td>bburg&#64;apple.com, joepeck&#64;webkit.org, mattbaker&#64;apple.com, nvasilyev&#64;apple.com, timothy&#64;apple.com, webkit-bug-importer&#64;group.apple.com
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        <pre>I tried to take snapshots at various times after we allocate the huge string, but it just hangs.

```
&lt;html&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
&lt;title&gt;Trivial Extension&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;
&lt;p&gt; Trivial transiently memory-thirsty extension &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;script&gt;
var stringArray;
var stringCount = 10000000;
var allocateMemory = function() {
    stringArray = new Array(stringCount);
    for (var i = 0; i &lt; stringCount; ++i) {
        stringArray[i] = String(i);
    }
}

window.setTimeout(function(){
    allocateMemory();
    document.body.appendChild(document.createTextNode(&quot;Allocated memory&quot;));
    }, 3000);

window.setTimeout(function() {
    stringArray = null;
    document.body.appendChild(document.createTextNode(&quot;Released memory&quot;));
    }, 10000);
&lt;/script&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;
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