How to get a heap visualization

[Edward Z. Yang]

Why not the plain old heap profiler?

Edward

Excerpts from Yitzchak Gale's message of 2017-08-30 18:34:05 +0300:
> I need a simple heap visualization for debugging purposes.
> I'm using GHC 8.0.2 to compile a large and complex yesod-based
> web app. What's the quickest and easiest way?
> 
> Vacuum looks simple and nice. But it has some long-outstanding
> PRs against it to support GHC 7.10 and GHC 8.0 that were never
> applied.
> 
> https://github.com/thoughtpolice/vacuum/issues/9
> 
> Getting ghc-vis to compile looks hopeless, for a number of reasons.
> The dependencies on gtk and cairo are huge. It hasn't been updated
> on Hackage for a year and a half. It requires base < 4.9. I need to run
> the visualizer either on a headless Ubuntu 16.04 server, or locally on
> Windows. And anyway, the fancy GUI in ghc-vis is way overkill for me.
> 
> 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?
> 
> Is there anything else? Is the best option to fork vacuum and and try
> to apply the PRs?