Meggin Kearney
This section describes common terms used in memory analysis, and is applicable to a variety of memory profiling tools for different languages.
The terms and notions described here refer to the Chrome DevTools Heap Profiler. If you have ever worked with either the Java, .NET, or some other memory profiler, then this may be a refresher.
Object sizes
Think of memory as a graph with primitive types (like numbers and strings) and objects (associative arrays). It might visually be represented as a graph with a number of interconnected points as follows: