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Questions on replacing finalizers and memory footprints

Thomas Fischbacher
- dmitry grebeniuk
- Richard Jones
  - Thomas Fischbacher
    - Jon Harrop
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- Xavier Leroy
  - Jean-Christophe_Filliâtre
  - Berke Durak

Date:	-- (:)
From:	Thomas Fischbacher <tf@f...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Questions on replacing finalizers and memory footprints

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.

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Best regards,
Thomas Fischbacher
tf@functionality.de