Is it possible to count code execution steps?

Question

Is it prossible to report how many calculations where executed by a section of code?

I know the benchmark gem will report on runtime, but don't believe it'll count the number of calculations done.

Just to be clear, I'm talking about at the processor level.

Answer 1

About memory usage, if you define the macro CALC_EXACT_MALLOC_SIZE (not sure where, but in ruby.h may work) and recompile Ruby, you will be able to call GC.malloc_allocated_size to know how much memory is allocated by malloc (almost everything), in bytes.