Analysing the size of code-related entities

This page provides an analysis for the size of the image, with a focus on the size of code entities, like methods and classes.

For performance reasons the vaues of these metrics are caches in GtMemoryMetrics Object << #GtMemoryMetrics slots: { #cache }; package: 'GToolkit-Releaser' . They can be reset using the snippet below.

GtMemoryMetrics reset
  

Current image size is 584.13 MiB.

Total analysed size: 229.17 MiB

Methods: 63.09 MiB for 433970 methods.

The size of methods includes all bytecodes, additional state and literals. Literals include strings and literal arrays, but excludes symbols.

String literals size: 7.74 MiB

Classes: 93.69 MiB for 31717 classess.

Instance Side: 37.92 MiB

Without method dictionaries: 13.39 MiB

By componets: 37.52 MiB

Method dictionaries: 24.53 MiB

Basic Size in Memory: 3.22 MiB

Other: 9.78 MiB

Subclasses: 287.70 KiB

Protocols: 6.20 MiB

Layout: 743.05 KiB

Shared pools: 2.57 MiB

Class side: 55.77 MiB (metaclasses)

Without method dictionaries: 32.35 MiB

By componets: 28.73 MiB

Method dictionaries: 23.42 MiB

Basic Size in Memory: 1.93 MiB

Other: 3.38 MiB

Protocols: 2.65 MiB

Layout: 743.37 KiB

By data:

Basic Size in Memory: 5.15 MiB

Method dictionaries: 47.95 MiB

Subclasses: 287.70 KiB

Protocols: 8.85 MiB

Shared pools: 2.57 MiB

Layout: 1.45 MiB

The size of classes includes the size of the class object and various method dictionaries, but excludes the actual methods in those dictionaries

Symbols: 6.59 MiB for 214139 symbols

Pragmas Cache: 5.08 MiB

GT Completion Cache: 56.81 MiB

Packages: 1.85 MiB

Navigation Environment: 2.07 MiB

When using traits, metaclasses use two extra arrays. This can introduce a memory overhead when traits have many users.

Traits overhead: 12.80 MiB

This measures the size of several types of instances, to double check that the previous calculations did not miss something.

MethodDictionary Dictionary << #MethodDictionary layout: VariableLayout; slots: {}; tag: 'Methods'; package: 'Kernel-CodeModel' sanity check:

78620 instances

74.97 MiB using HashedCollection>>#gtSpecificSizeInMemory gtSpecificSizeInMemory ^ self sizeInMemory + array sizeInMemory

32.10 MiB using #selector instancesSizeInMemory "Answers the number of bytes consumed by all its instances including their object header. Note: we do not use #allInstances as allInstancesDo: has a fallback for low memory" | bytes | bytes := 0. self allInstancesDo: [:each | bytes := bytes + each sizeInMemory ]. ^ bytes

CompiledMethod CompiledCode << #CompiledMethod layout: CompiledMethodLayout; slots: {}; tag: 'Methods'; package: 'Kernel-CodeModel' :

434131 instances

63.12 MiB using CompiledMethod>>#gtSpecificSizeInMemory gtSpecificSizeInMemory ^ super gtSpecificSizeInMemory + (self penultimateLiteral isMethodProperties ifTrue: [ self penultimateLiteral sizeInMemory ] ifFalse: [ 0 ])

36.80 MiB using #selector instancesSizeInMemory "Answers the number of bytes consumed by all its instances including their object header. Note: we do not use #allInstances as allInstancesDo: has a fallback for low memory" | bytes | bytes := 0. self allInstancesDo: [:each | bytes := bytes + each sizeInMemory ]. ^ bytes

CompiledBlock CompiledCode << #CompiledBlock layout: CompiledMethodLayout; slots: {}; tag: 'Methods'; package: 'Kernel-CodeModel' instances

125184 instances

7.29 MiB using #selector instancesSizeInMemory "Answers the number of bytes consumed by all its instances including their object header. Note: we do not use #allInstances as allInstancesDo: has a fallback for low memory" | bytes | bytes := 0. self allInstancesDo: [:each | bytes := bytes + each sizeInMemory ]. ^ bytes