Size Compute

Motivation

This can be used to compute the allocated memory of N instances of a defined class.

Sometimes we need to know how to structure our data inside a class (or multiple classes). One of the questions when thinking about this problem is the overhead created by composing/splitting classes.

This is a util that computes the total memory allocation of N instances of a class.

What

There are two files here:

• main.py this will to the computation
• my_class.py in this file we define all the members of the instance we want to measure

How

main.py instantiates num_instances of my_class and outputs the result to the terminal.

In order to run multiple computations we should organize ourselves in a workflow that is not destructive for previous/future test cases.

Proposed workflow

We should use the main branch as an immutable starting point for all our computations.

When we need to create another computation case:

• we branch from main
• we give the branch a obvious name eg.: calculate-size-of-validators-merged
• we edit the my_class.py file, fill in all the required data and stubs
• we run main with python main.py

We should never merge back to main, let's keep things separated.