From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51305BC69 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 15:50:03 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAG6aV0fAXQInh2dsb2JhbACPVwEBAQgKKQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.23,261,1194217200"; d="scan'208";a="20054530" Received: from concorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.39]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 06 Dec 2007 15:50:03 +0100 Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id lB6Entle022949 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 15:50:02 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAG6aV0fU4368nmdsb2JhbACPVwEBAQEHAggp X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.23,261,1194217200"; d="scan'208";a="4963034" Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.188]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 06 Dec 2007 15:50:02 +0100 Received: from [152.78.96.56] (babylon.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de [141.84.136.30]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu1) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MKwpI-1J0I3139zK-0007Z0; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:50:00 +0100 Message-ID: <47580DE4.40503@functionality.de> Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:57:40 +0000 From: Thomas Fischbacher User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060607 Debian/1.7.12-1.2 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Jones Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Questions on replacing finalizers and memory footprints References: <4757D904.2090502@functionality.de> <20071206142609.GA15768@furbychan.cocan.org> In-Reply-To: <20071206142609.GA15768@furbychan.cocan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18A5aFGALAnBHN4Yv6QCxUuA+KHly4VYiQxH2Q oR5PTbXBakT7QmHnN+juHUHujSWtZ6zS+PFdxA5elBvYPFbqAc QEMVScXnZAXoH6glOz03Q== X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 47580C13.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; finalizers:01 footprints:01 ocaml:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 marshal:01 data:02 data:02 probably:07 space:07 structure:07 structure:07 replacing:09 memory:09 complicated:09 Richard Jones wrote: > If you want to do this in pure OCaml, probably your best bet would be > to just Marshal the structure and count how big it is. It'll be slow > of course. Actually, the situation that brought up this question is that I have a complicated internal data structure which will free 300 MB of RAM if I delete it, while serializing it produces a file of 94 MB only... So, I would like to have more clarity what is going on here, and which part of this data structure eats how much space. -- Best regards, Thomas Fischbacher tf@functionality.de