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Dominators

Last modified: 24 July 2024

The Dominators view lets you understand how memory is retained in your app. For example, you know that strings consume a significant part of the memory in your app. Nevertheless, most likely, the subject of your optimizations is not these strings by themselves but the data structures that store them. The Dominators view answers the "Who retains the memory" question, which is extremely important when analyzing ineffective memory usage. To answer this question correctly, you should be acquainted with the concept of dominators.