What is Memory footprint ?

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What is meant by Memory footprint in context of the following example:

Excessive Memory Footprint leads to following:

-Application is slow to load
-After load, other application runs slower than expected

Posted 29-Jan-12 2:50am

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Richard MacCutchan · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-29T02:58:00

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It means a program that takes up a large amount of memory. So a person with big feet would have a large footprint and cover more space on the floor.

Posted 29-Jan-12 2:58am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 29-Jan-12 13:26pm

Right, a 5.
I offered a little different explanation of the metaphor (and at least mention that this is a metaphor :-), please see.
--SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-29T07:24:00

The metaphor can be understood like this: when you walk on the floor in your dirty shoes, you leave your footprints. After that, the floor needs to be cleaned.

When you run you program, you allocate some objects and use memory and other resources. The more resources your use, the more the "footprint". When those objects are no longer needed, you need to clean up after yourself, so the resources could be reclaimed to be used by other objects.

—SA