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+package org.apache.lucene.util;
+
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this
+ * work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF
+ * licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+ * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+ * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under
+ * the License.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Returns primitive memory sizes for estimating RAM usage.
+ *
+ */
+public abstract class MemoryModel {
+
+ /**
+ * @return size of array beyond contents
+ */
+ public abstract int getArraySize();
+
+ /**
+ * @return Class size overhead
+ */
+ public abstract int getClassSize();
+
+ /**
+ * @param clazz a primitive Class - bool, byte, char, short, long, float,
+ * short, double, int
+ * @return the size in bytes of given primitive Class
+ */
+ public abstract int getPrimitiveSize(Class<?> clazz);
+
+ /**
+ * @return size of reference
+ */
+ public abstract int getReferenceSize();
+
+}