Predicting Memory Use

Increasingly, new applications are being built by composing existing software components rather than by coding a system from scratch. Using this approach, applications can be built quickly. However, far too often these applications do not exhibit acceptable performance. The benefits of construction through composition could be more reliably achieved if a software engineer could assess the performance impact of a component prior to its use. We have done some initial investigations of a method to predict memory use for C++ components.