use Devel::Peek; sub foo { print "in foo\n"; } *bar = \&foo; print "----\nfoo:\n----\n"; Dump(*foo); print "----\nbar\n----\n"; Dump(*bar); __END__ ---- foo: ---- SV = PVGV(0x1765790) at 0x1731550 REFCNT = 3 FLAGS = (RMG,MULTI,IN_PAD) MAGIC = 0x1732e80 MG_VIRTUAL = &PL_vtbl_backref MG_TYPE = PERL_MAGIC_backref(<) MG_OBJ = 0x1725238 NAME = "foo" NAMELEN = 3 GvSTASH = 0x1705800 "main" GP = 0x1732870 SV = 0x0 REFCNT = 1 IO = 0x0 FORM = 0x0 AV = 0x0 HV = 0x0 CV = 0x1725238 CVGEN = 0x0 LINE = 4 FILE = "f.pl" FLAGS = 0xa EGV = 0x1731550 "foo" ---- bar ---- SV = PVGV(0x17657c0) at 0x1725208 REFCNT = 3 FLAGS = (MULTI,ASSUMECV,IN_PAD) NAME = "bar" NAMELEN = 3 GvSTASH = 0x1705800 "main" GP = 0x1759a40 SV = 0x0 REFCNT = 1 IO = 0x0 FORM = 0x0 AV = 0x0 HV = 0x0 CV = 0x1725238 CVGEN = 0x0 LINE = 5 FILE = "f.pl" FLAGS = 0xe EGV = 0x1725208 "bar" #### use Devel::Size qw(size total_size); sub foo { print "in foo\n"; } print "size foo: ",size(*foo),"\n"; print "total_size foo: ",total_size(*foo),"\n"; print "size bar: ",size(*bar),"\n"; print "total_size bar: ",total_size(*bar),"\n"; print "difference: ",size(*foo) - size(*bar),"\n"; __END__ size foo: 7034 total_size foo: 7034 size bar: 7186 total_size bar: 7186 difference: -152