devil-windows/lib/v8-profiler/readme.md

Debugger, profiler and runtime with embedded WebKit DevTools client (for Windows).

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v8-profiler provides [node](http://github.com/ry/node) bindings for the v8 
profiler and integration with [node-inspector](http://github.com/dannycoates/node-inspector)

## Installation

    npm install v8-profiler

## Usage

    var profiler = require('v8-profiler');

## API

    var snapshot = profiler.takeSnapshot([name])      //takes a heap snapshot

    profiler.startProfiling([name])                   //begin cpu profiling
    var cpuProfile = profiler.stopProfiling([name])   //finish cpu profiling

## node-inspector

Cpu profiles can be viewed and heap snapshots may be taken and viewed from the
profiles panel.