1000 test.rb:11:String

Okay, so you're showing we have 1000 arbitrary string values. You're not actually saying anything about the memory usage – you're showing the number of string objects instantiated. You're just counting objects.

Note: the commenting system wouldn't let me edit things… so please if possible delete my posts that I flagged…

However, my question stands – how is this actually a memory profiler :). It says nothing about the fact that every one of the 1000 string instantiations contains n chars which take y bytes to store.

1000 test.rb:11:String

Okay, so you're showing we have 1000 arbitrary string values. You're not actually saying anything about the memory usage – you're showing the number of string objects instantiated. You're just counting objects.

(Please delete the other comment with the misspelling :P)

1000 test.rb:11:String

Okay, so you're showing we have 1000 arbitrary string values. You're not actually saying anything about the memory usage – you're showing the number of string objects instantiated. You're just counting objects.

require 'memprof'

@blah = Hash.new([])

Memprof.start
10.times {
@blah[1] << (“aaaaa” * 10000)
}

1000.times {
@blah[2] << “bbbbb”
}
Memprof.stats
Memprof.stop