To reduce V8’s memory footprint, the V8 team monitored its two heaps – the C++ and the JavaScript heap – using a new feature in Chrome 54: the --trace-gc-object-stats flag, that makes V8 ...

The new release brings improvements to JavaScript heap profiles, CSS code formatting, and local history. Visual Studio Code 1.66 became available on March 30. It can be downloaded from the project ...

Detailing the improvements in a technical blog post, Google engineers said that by modifying how V8 handles JavaScript heap size and off-heap zone memory, they managed to cut down the memory ...