Thanks, I'll try that. While awaiting your reply I had a minor brainstorm on how to build it. I could augment Devel::DProf (and/or my baby, Devel::Profiler) to capture the value of Devel::Size::total_size() at each data point. Use that to develop total memory allocation profiles for each subroutine. This would probably be effective at catching really large allocations, but it will likely miss small ones due to Perl's use of SV arenas, right?

UPDATE: I'm dumb. I jumped to the wrong conclusion that Devel::Size::total_size() returned the total amount of allocated memory for Perl. RTFM, sam.

-sam

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Finding the size of a variable by samtregar
in thread Finding the size of a variable by Elian

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