We have two items in the Firefox issue tracker regarding debugging large
files:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1158098 - Improve debugger to
navigate and search large UE4 StrategyGame JavaScript file.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1224726 - High memory
consumption when opening and searching a large Javascript file in debugger.

These are in the radar for 2016, so we are hoping to improve things greatly
here.

2015-12-04 23:16 GMT+02:00 Alon Zakai <[email protected]>:

> Yes, this is a known issue. There is progress on the browser side to more
> efficiently handle such large programs, but no browser does this well yet.
>
> Emscripten supports dynamic linking,
>
> https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/wiki/Linking
>
> This can be a solution for this problem, by splitting things up into
> smaller files.
>
> In practice, personally, I tend to use print debugging and I open the file
> in a text editor on the side that can handle massive text files.
>
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 12:02 PM, arnab choudhury <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hey all
>>
>> I'm using Emscripten to convert a decent sized C++ codebase to
>> Javascript. As part of this process, I'm finding that debugging the
>> unoptimized generated JS can be quite painful. Specifically, some JS files
>> can be up to 1 million lines long and this completely breaks my browser's
>> node debugger (via node-inspector). Google's v8 debugger (via node debug)
>> also has a hard time stepping through code. My only debugging technique
>> that works currently is to enter print statements, and debug and build
>> iteratively.
>>
>> I saw some threads on github about emscripten having the ability to split
>> up the generated JS files into multiple files. However, the latest version
>> of emscripten doesn't seem to support this. Have others run into this
>> issue? Are there any existing solutions for this problem?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Arnab
>>
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