Posted by M. Sokolewicz on 03/24/05 10:29

Joe Wollard wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm trying to help a C programmer understand and use PHP for web
> development. So far all the similarities between C++ and PHP are making
> the process rather speedy. He asked what seemed like a very simple
> question, but I couldn't find the answer. The questions is how can you
> determine how much memory a variable/object/struct/etc are using?
>
> For instance:
> $myObject = new myClass();
> $myObject->performAction_and_holdResult();
>
> At this point, how can you tell how much memory $myObject is using?
>
> Thanks!
you can't. PHP (the ZE actually) handles all memory related tasks behind
the screens, this means you shouldn't have to worry about it. But just
"don't worry" doesn't mean it can not be seen.
AFAIK there are functions which give you the total memory used by the
script, but I don't think there are any showing the memory used by a
structure/variable. (since there's no need for them)

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