SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASURING MEMORY CONSUMPTION DIFFERENCES BETWEEN OBJECTS WITHIN AN OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT

摘要

A computer-implemented system and method are described for measuring the memory consumption difference between two objects in an object-oriented programming environment. For example, one embodiment of a method comprises: analyzing relationships between objects within a network of objects to determine an object network structure; generating object graph data representing the object network structure, the object graph data including nodes representing objects and arcs representing relationships between objects; removing all incoming arcs to each of two nodes; building resulting sub-graphs for each of the two nodes; summing the memory consumed by each of the subgraphs of the two nodes; and subtracting the memory amounts consumed by each of the sub-graphs to determine the memory consumption different between the two nodes.