On Wed 02 Oct 2002 13:50, "H.Merijn Brand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As a start for a `normal' interface to the interperters internals, this time
> no open hack, but a neat interface.
>
> Very open to additions.
>
> Useful?
>
> Feedback please
Thank you Dan!
Devel::Size from Dan Sugalski is what we all want, don't we?
=head1 NAME
Devel::Size - Perl extension for finding the memory usage of Perl variables
=head1 SYNOPSIS
use Devel::Size qw(size total_size);
my $size = size("A string");
my @foo = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5);
my $other_size = size(\@foo);
my $foo = {a => [1, 2, 3],
b => {a => [1, 3, 4]}
};
my $total_size = total_size($foo);
=head1 DESCRIPTION
This module figures out the real sizes of Perl variables in bytes.
Call functions with a reference to the variable you want the size
of. If the variable is a plain scalar it returns the size of
the scalar. If the variable is a hash or an array, use a reference
when calling.
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