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| From | markspace <-@.> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes |
| Date | 2011-11-20 13:05 -0800 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <jabq3m$soi$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On 11/20/2011 1:01 PM, sara wrote: > Hi All, > > I create an Arraylist<Integer> tmp and add some integers to it. > Afterward, I measure the size of tmp in bytes (by converting tmp to > bytes array). Assume the result is byte[] C. However, when I update an > element of tmp, and measure size of tmp in bytes again, the result is > different than C! > Why this is the case? We'd have to see some code to give you a good answer, but basically you can't measure the memory size of Java objects. They change over time, in ways that C or C++ can't or doesn't, and there's not much to do that can rectify that.
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Size of an arraylist in bytes sara <sarasara82@gmail.com> - 2011-11-20 13:01 -0800
Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes markspace <-@.> - 2011-11-20 13:05 -0800
Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes sara <sarasara82@gmail.com> - 2011-11-20 13:11 -0800
Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-11-20 21:58 +0000
Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes markspace <-@.> - 2011-11-20 14:08 -0800
Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-11-20 14:50 -0800
Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-20 18:06 -0500
Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-20 20:28 -0800
Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-20 16:30 -0500
Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes sara <sarasara82@gmail.com> - 2011-11-20 13:35 -0800
Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-20 17:19 -0500
Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-20 16:58 -0500
Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-11-20 14:04 -0800
Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-20 17:18 -0500
Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-11-20 14:48 -0800
Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-25 22:12 -0500
Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-20 20:44 -0800
Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-25 22:16 -0500
Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-25 20:15 -0800
Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-20 22:25 -0800
Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-25 22:11 -0500
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