On Tuesday, 4 September 2018 10:29:45 UTC+2, Ingo Jaeckel wrote:
>
> What are other idiomatic ways to determine the runtime memory use of a 
> struct which contains (among other things) slices?
>

That depends a lot on your definition of "runtime memory use":
Consider:

    a := [100]int16
    b := bar{C: a[:]}

Variable a clearly "uses" 200 bytes (maybe plus some for alignment). 
But b.C uses a's memory as the backing array. Attributing a slice's
memory to the slice might result in double counting these 200 bytes.
(Same for structs which contain pointers: Two variables may point to
the same object. Where do you count the memory used?).

Maybe it is best to think of bar's memory usage as 4*8 bytes and not
to attribute C's backing array memory to bar.

V.

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