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package io.netty.channel;
/**
* Responsible to estimate the size of a message. The size represents approximately how much memory the message will
* reserve in memory.
*/
public interface MessageSizeEstimator {
/**
* Creates a new handle. The handle provides the actual operations.
*/
Handle newHandle();
interface Handle {
/**
* Calculate the size of the given message.
*
* @param msg The message for which the size should be calculated
* @return size The size in bytes. The returned size must be >= 0
*/
int size(Object msg);
}
}