thanks. I'm trying to see how to map this mechanism into C++-land.

In theory, what SHOULD be size for a given value instance?  The sizeof(value 
instance) + sizeof(external buffer used by value instance)? 

"external buffer" would be for strings and blobs and such.



On Jun 4, 2010, at 7:15 AM, Thomas Mueller wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>> What are the significance of the DataType memory size values. Is this the
>> size of the value instance + the contained data or something else?
> 
> This is used to calculate the current cache size (in memory
> representation). I know it's not an exact method, but it's not that
> bad. It's almost impossible to calculate the "exact" number, specially
> for shared objects (in the object cache).
> 
>> I assume you arrived at them experimentally.
> 
> Yes. Once I saw a way... now I found it. I will add a feature request for:
> 
> Improve object memory size calculation. Use constants for known VMs,
> or use reflection to call
> java.lang.instrument.Instrumentation.getObjectSize(Object
> objectToSize)
> 
> Regards,
> Thomas
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