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VM Service Feature Availability

This table describe which features of the VM service protocol are available in different modes of the Dart VM. In general, the JIT supports the full set of features, and AOT supports features that do not require code generation or modification. When attempting to use a feature in a mode where it is not supported, the service RPC will return error code 100 ("Feature is disabled").

Feature Supported Modes
CPU Profiler All Modes
Dart Allocation Site Profiler JIT only
Malloc Allocation Site Profiler Debug VM builds only
Allocation Table All Modes
Heap Snapshot All Modes
Metrics All Modes
Timeline/Tracing All Modes
Object Inspection All Modes
Stack Inspection JIT only
Breakpoints/Pause-on-Exception JIT only
Stepping JIT only
Pausing/Resuming JIT only [1]
Reload JIT with a compilation server available
Evaluate JIT with a compilation server available
Invoke JIT + AOT [2]

[1] This could be added to AOT without affecting AOT code generation, but has not yet been implemented.

[2] The target function must be annotated as an entry point to work under AOT.