I'm trying to make a crossplatform simple webserver. In this server, I'm cacheing results to ease IO difficulties. I also want to provide a mechanism to limit the total memory used by the cache. I'd like to determine the amount of memory used by a variable (sometimes a complex object like an HTTP::Response) so that I can clear out the cache of either the least recently used or most memory intensive objects.

My question is: Is there a way to determine the size of a nonstandard object?

I could use an instance of the object's ->as_string method and get the length of that, but I'd prefer to have its actual size (not just the approximation from the size of its output).

In reply to How do I determine the amount of memory used by a variable? by wsloand

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