MEASURING THE EXACT MEMORY REQUIREMENT OF AN APPLICATION THROUGH INTENSIVE USE OF GARBAGE COLLECTOR

Method and apparatus are disclosed for the intensive use of garbage collection in order to determine the exact amount of memory that is consumed by a running application at any point of its execution. A garbage collector executes immediately prior to allocations of memory during execution of a program. The amount of memory used by the application is known after each such allocation of memory, and is very close to or equal to its theoretical requirement. A developer is also enabled to determine whether a specified memory allotment for an application is ever exceeded.