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
. They can be reset using the snippet below.
GtMemoryMetrics reset
Current image size is 511.79 MiB
.
Total analysed size: InstanceVariableNotFound: methodSelectors not found in AllProtocol (no messages) - 0 selector(s)
Methods: 54.94 MiB
for 395182
methods.
The size of methods includes all bytecodes, additional state and literals. Literals include strings and literal arrays, but excludes symbols.
Classes: InstanceVariableNotFound: methodSelectors not found in AllProtocol (no messages) - 0 selector(s)
for 28148
classess.
Instance Side: InstanceVariableNotFound: methodSelectors not found in AllProtocol (-- all --) - 7 selector(s)
Class side: InstanceVariableNotFound: methodSelectors not found in AllProtocol (no messages) - 0 selector(s)
(metaclasses)
The size of classes includes the size of the class object and various method dictionaries, but excludes the actual methods in those dictionaries
Symbols: 6.18 MiB
for 200318
symbols
Pragmas Cache: 2.03 MiB
GT Completion Cache: 49.54 MiB
Packages: 10.45 MiB
Navigation Environment: 1.90 MiB
When using traits, metaclasses use two extra arrays. This can introduce a memory overhead when traits have many users.
Traits overhead: 11.31 MiB
This measures the size of several types of instances, to double check that the previous calculations did not miss something.
MethodDictionary
sanity check:
70048
instances
66.22 MiB
using HashedCollection>>#gtSpecificSizeInMemory
28.20 MiB
using #selector
CompiledMethod
:
395368
instances
54.97 MiB
using CompiledMethod>>#gtSpecificSizeInMemory
33.06 MiB
using #selector
ClassOrganization
:
56296
instances
InstanceVariableNotFound: methodSelectors not found in AllProtocol (-- all --) - 1 selector(s)
using ClassOrganization>>#gtSpecificSizeInMemory