Oh, I dunno, it doesn't take that long. And unfortunately it's the only really effective way to see how much memory's currently in use, though even then there are some interesting bits to deal with.

Also, don't forget that Devel::Profiler is pure perl, and thus has a fair amount of overhead. Devel::Size is entirely in C, and a fair amount faster. I'd guess we'd see about a factor of 100 speedup over a perl version, but it might be upwards of 200 to 300 times faster for what it does, as well as immune to a lot of the problems you'd find doing this in perl. (It's not tripped up by tying or overloading, for example)

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

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