Data structure Memory Usage

arunhorne has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Monks,

How can I find out how much memory my datastructure is using up, e.g. if I have:

my %struct = ("key1" => ["bill","ben"],
              "key2" => ["dave","jen"]);
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Is the some function I can pass a reference, \%struct to to find out the memory usage?

Thanks,

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Arun

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Re: Data structure Memory Usage by broquaint (Abbot) on May 21, 2003 at 09:58 UTC
How can I find out how much memory my datastructure is using up Use Elian's marvellous `Devel::Size` e.g `use Devel::Size 'total_size'; my %struct = ("key1" => ["bill","ben"], "key2" => ["dave","jen"]); print "total size of %struct - ", total_size(\%struct); __output__ total size of %struct - 412` [download] See. `Devel::Size` for more info. HTH `_________ broquaint`	[reply] [d/l]