Story memory usage

[AlekseyMelekh]

Hi. Is there any way to find out the memory usage of 'ink::runtime::story'?

[JBenda]

A story should be similar in size to the story.bin file since it is mainly this plus some pointers as seen here.

For the global and, the runner is currently no function to get the actually used memory.

There is an indirect metric included in config.h. Where you can limit the number of elements per type of list used throughout the code.

Why are exactly you interested in the memory footprint?

[AlekseyMelekh]

This metric would be useful for gathering statistics on how much resources are consumed by ink::runtime::story

[JBenda]

I see the point, but a precise memory usage is system-dependent, and I do not know how to implement it efficiently.

For a precise measurement, I use valgrind's massif for profiling

A collection of the current size of all dynamic values in the config.h could be collected, to have an idea where the memory is going. This could be implemented.

[JBenda]

In #110 is a inkcpp_cl version which supports the flag --statistics, which will print different array sizes. This will not include the size of allocated strings.