I've done a bit more analysis which I have written up in detail in the Spring Issue:
https://jira.springframework.org/browse/SPR-7678 The net of the analysis is that switching on Spring AspectJ point cuts increased the memory footprint of our application by a factor of 8-10x. A heap of 800,000 objects that consumed 52M became a heap of 6.9M objects, that consumed 523M. This was in a configuration of the application that had 8 point cuts, ~1500 Spring beans and a total of 8347 distinct types (as measured on entry to World.TypeMap.put). jon. _______________________________________________ aspectj-users mailing list aspectj-users@eclipse.org https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/aspectj-users