1815677 - Add a new UniqueString marker schema format type

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1600093

(Core :: Gecko Profiler, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Nazım Can Altınova [:canova][:canaltinova on phabricator]]

Currently we only have String marker schema type that stores the strings inside the profiler marker payload directly. But we also have cases where we would like to store the payload fields inside the string table. For example ScreenshotMarker has a field that we store inside the string table.
Instead of putting a SpecialFrontendLocation{}, we can display it directly with the marker schema properly if we had a UniqueString format type. This

Comment 1

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

(In reply to Nazım Can Altınova [:canova][:canaltinova on phabricator] from comment #0)

Currently we only have String marker schema type that stores the strings inside the profiler marker payload directly. But we also have cases where we would like to store the payload fields inside the string table.

Do you think it would be possible to store a small string table inside the marker schema instead of in the global string table, to ensure there are few digits in the string index, and the space saving is maximum?

Comment 2

[Julien Wajsberg [:julienw]]

Yeah, I think this would be beneficial. Indeed it's unlikely that we'll have the same strings in the current string table and in the markers values.

Comment 3

[Nazım Can Altınova [:canova][:canaltinova on phabricator]]

Closing this as a duplicate of Bug 1600093 looks like we filed this multiple times already :)