Is there a way to see how much memory a variable uses?

Asked 2011-08-22T09:01:05.610

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I am working with Perl for some months now. As for now, my scripts work but they are far from being perfect.

I would now like to optimize the memory usage, thus I am looking for a way to break down the memory usage per variable/hash.

Is there a way to see how much memory a variable uses?

perl memory-management

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Devel::Size or Devel::Size::Report can be used to get memory usage for a variable/structure.

You might want to check perl guts illustrated to see what the numbers really mean.

answered 2011-08-22T09:30:32.633

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