diff --git a/tools/profile_view.js b/tools/profile_view.js
index 9d196a37af..d0fc3b6d35 100644
--- a/tools/profile_view.js
+++ b/tools/profile_view.js
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ devtools.profiler.ViewBuilder.prototype.buildView = function(
     callTree, opt_bottomUpViewWeights) {
   var head;
   var samplingRate = this.samplingRate;
+  var createViewNode = this.createViewNode;
   callTree.traverse(function(node, viewParent) {
     var totalWeight = node.totalWeight * samplingRate;
     var selfWeight = node.selfWeight * samplingRate;
@@ -63,8 +64,7 @@ devtools.profiler.ViewBuilder.prototype.buildView = function(
         selfWeight = 0;
       }
     }
-    var viewNode = new devtools.profiler.ProfileView.Node(
-        node.label, totalWeight, selfWeight, head);
+    var viewNode = createViewNode(node.label, totalWeight, selfWeight, head);
     if (viewParent) {
       viewParent.addChild(viewNode);
     } else {
@@ -72,11 +72,41 @@ devtools.profiler.ViewBuilder.prototype.buildView = function(
     }
     return viewNode;
   });
-  var view = new devtools.profiler.ProfileView(head);
+  var view = this.createView(head);
   return view;
 };
 
 
+/**
+ * Factory method for a profile view.
+ *
+ * @param {devtools.profiler.ProfileView.Node} head View head node.
+ * @return {devtools.profiler.ProfileView} Profile view.
+ */
+devtools.profiler.ViewBuilder.prototype.createView = function(head) {
+  return new devtools.profiler.ProfileView(head);
+};
+
+
+/**
+ * Factory method for a profile view node.
+ *
+ * @param {string} internalFuncName A fully qualified function name.
+ * @param {number} totalTime Amount of time that application spent in the
+ *     corresponding function and its descendants (not that depending on
+ *     profile they can be either callees or callers.)
+ * @param {number} selfTime Amount of time that application spent in the
+ *     corresponding function only.
+ * @param {devtools.profiler.ProfileView.Node} head Profile view head.
+ * @return {devtools.profiler.ProfileView.Node} Profile view node.
+ */
+devtools.profiler.ViewBuilder.prototype.createViewNode = function(
+    funcName, totalTime, selfTime, head) {
+  return new devtools.profiler.ProfileView.Node(
+      funcName, totalTime, selfTime, head);
+};
+
+
 /**
  * Creates a Profile View object. It allows to perform sorting
  * and filtering actions on the profile. Profile View mimicks
@@ -140,63 +170,12 @@ devtools.profiler.ProfileView.prototype.traverse = function(f) {
  */
 devtools.profiler.ProfileView.Node = function(
     internalFuncName, totalTime, selfTime, head) {
-  this.callIdentifier = 0;
   this.internalFuncName = internalFuncName;
-  this.initFuncInfo();
   this.totalTime = totalTime;
   this.selfTime = selfTime;
   this.head = head;
   this.parent = null;
   this.children = [];
-  this.visible = true;
-};
-
-
-/**
- * RegEx for stripping V8's prefixes of compiled functions.
- */
-devtools.profiler.ProfileView.Node.FUNC_NAME_STRIP_RE =
-    /^(?:LazyCompile|Function): (.*)$/;
-
-
-/**
- * RegEx for extracting script source URL and line number.
- */
-devtools.profiler.ProfileView.Node.FUNC_NAME_PARSE_RE = /^([^ ]+) (.*):(\d+)$/;
-
-
-/**
- * RegEx for removing protocol name from URL.
- */
-devtools.profiler.ProfileView.Node.URL_PARSE_RE = /^(?:http:\/)?.*\/([^/]+)$/;
-
-
-/**
- * Inits 'functionName', 'url', and 'lineNumber' fields using 'internalFuncName'
- * field.
- */
-devtools.profiler.ProfileView.Node.prototype.initFuncInfo = function() {
-  var nodeAlias = devtools.profiler.ProfileView.Node;
-  this.functionName = this.internalFuncName;
-
-  var strippedName = nodeAlias.FUNC_NAME_STRIP_RE.exec(this.functionName);
-  if (strippedName) {
-    this.functionName = strippedName[1];
-  }
-
-  var parsedName = nodeAlias.FUNC_NAME_PARSE_RE.exec(this.functionName);
-  if (parsedName) {
-    this.url = parsedName[2];
-    var parsedUrl = nodeAlias.URL_PARSE_RE.exec(this.url);
-    if (parsedUrl) {
-      this.url = parsedUrl[1];
-    }
-    this.functionName = parsedName[1];
-    this.lineNumber = parsedName[3];
-  } else {
-    this.url = '';
-    this.lineNumber = 0;
-  }
 };
 
 
diff --git a/tools/tickprocessor.js b/tools/tickprocessor.js
index 196daa984a..477ab26828 100644
--- a/tools/tickprocessor.js
+++ b/tools/tickprocessor.js
@@ -273,10 +273,6 @@ TickProcessor.prototype.printStatistics = function() {
     this.printCounter(this.ticks_.unaccounted, this.ticks_.total);
   }
 
-  // Disable initialization of 'funcName', 'url', 'lineNumber' as
-  // we don't use it and it just wastes time.
-  devtools.profiler.ProfileView.Node.prototype.initFuncInfo = function() {};
-
   var flatProfile = this.profile_.getFlatProfile();
   var flatView = this.viewBuilder_.buildView(flatProfile);
   // Sort by self time, desc, then by name, desc.