Hi, is there a good way to tell how much memory a given data structure is consuming? I realize that there are issues in using this number to determine runtime memory requirements (like the fact that, in some circumstances, a running Perl process does not give back allocated memory to the operating system until the process exits) but ... are there guidelines like 100 bytes per REF, for example? Or is there a routine to which I can pass my data structure and have it tell me the size? Thanks!
There is likely a shoreter trick, but to give you an idea path to follow -
my @array;
my $size = length @array; print "$size\n\n";
@array = qw/one two three four/;
$size = length @array; print "$size\n\n";
$size = 0;
foreach (@array) {
$size += length;
}print "$size\n\n";
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