How to detect the memory allocations that are trig

While looking for performance issues in a JavaScript library (rivets), i found that garbage collection occurs three to four times in a run, taking ~15% of execution time (using Chrome DevTools JS Profile).

There are at least 30 places where temporary functions / objects are created being potential candidates for the reason of the garbage collection.

I'd like to know if there's a way to find what functions are responsible for the allocation of the memory being garbage collected, so i can focus my performance tuning.

I recorded Heap Allocation TimeLine but it does not differentiate memory that was garbage collected and that still holds a reference (there's no gray bar as pointed in DevTools doc)

Also recorded Heap Allocation Profile without luck.

At Profiles tab at DevTools select Record Heap Allocation. Wrap javascript which should be evaluated within a call to setTimeout() with a duration set to enough time to click Start before function passed to setTimeout is called; for example

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <script>
    t = 5;
    setTimeout(function() {
      (function test1() {
        var a = 123;
        function abc() {
          return a
        }
        abc();
      }());
    }, 10000)
  </script>
</head>
<body></body>
</html>

When setTimeout is called a blue bar, possibly followed by a gray bar should appear at timeline. Click Ctr+E to stop recording heap profile.

Select blue or gray bar at timeline graph. Select Containment at dropdown menu where default option is Summary. Select

[1] :: (GC roots) @n

where n is a number.

Expand the selection by clicking triangle to left of [1] :: (GC roots). Select an element of [1] :: (GC roots), review the displayed Distance, Shallow Size, and Retained Size columns for the selection.

To check specific functions, scroll to

[2] :: (External strings) @n

to where global variables and function calls should be listed; i.e.g., "t" and "setTimeout" from above javascrip. Check corresponding Distance, Shallow Size, and Retained Size columns for the selection.