Re: Memory tracking in GJS

[Lionel Landwerlin <llandwerlin gmail com>]

Hey Cosimo,

Nice to see someone looking at this issue.

On 20/02/14 01:50, Cosimo Cecchi wrote:
> * keep track of memory allocated in GJS itself. We can use GType to 
> query the size of the instance, class and even the size of private 
> data. This still doesn't include additional allocations inside the 
> object itself, such as strings, buffers and payloads. We could track 
> those case-by-case by e.g. overriding constructors in the binding for 
> "interesting" pixbuf-like types (ugh), or have a way to query that 
> information from the type system/introspection itself.

Adding on this, I have to mention my experience with OpenGL allocated 
textures.
These often end up being completely outside of the process' address 
space (so completely invisible) and only represented by a very thin 
object in GObject/Gjs.

-
Lionel