RFR: 8350006: IGV: show memory slices as type information

[Daniel Lundén]

On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 09:13:40 GMT, Roberto Castañeda Lozano <rcastanedalo at openjdk.org> wrote:

> I agree that that would be more robust, on the other hand using the available `dump_spec` information means that the filter can be readily used to inspect graphs generated from older JVM versions, without having to backport HotSpot changes.

True, assuming the `dump_spec` output format remains backward compatible (which is probably a quite reasonable assumption). It's difficult to motivate spending time on something like `dump_spec_json` given that IGV is a developer tool. Maybe if there are also other use cases.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/23621#issuecomment-2658728085