Sometimes I want to know the amount of memory a Module takes.

package MemImpact;
use vars qw($before $after $now);
BEGIN {
    $before = `ps -o vsz= -p $$`;
}
$now = $before;
printf "%-40s % 10d kB\n", "initial memory:" , $before;
sub import {
    my $pack = shift;
    for (@_) {
        eval "use $_;";
        die "Can't load $_:\n$@\n" if $@;
        $after = `ps -o vsz= -p $$`;
        printf "%-40s % 10d kB\n", "after loading $_:" , $after;
        printf "%-40s % 10d kB\n", "impact of $_:" , $after - $now;
        $now = $after;
    }
}
END { printf "%-40s % 10d kB\n", "total impact:" , $after - $before; }
1;

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Usage example:

perl -MMemImpact=Moose,MooseX::AttributeHelpers -e 1

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or

#!/usr/bin/perl
use MemImpact qw(Moose);
use MemImpact qw(MooseX::AttributeHelpers);

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initial memory:                                7576 kB
after loading Moose:                          13408 kB
impact of Moose:                               5832 kB
after loading MooseX::AttributeHelpers:       14848 kB
impact of MooseX::AttributeHelpers:            1440 kB
total impact:                                  7272 kB

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In reply to memory usage of modules by shmem

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