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Memory profiling is the process of collecting memory address traces during the execution of a program, then analyzing and characterizing the memory behavior of the program offline. With the trend that there will be more and more cores integrated in a processor chip, the “Memory Wall” problem will become more serious in the chip multiprocessor (CMP) system. Thus accurate and effective memory profiling is becoming one of the keys to identify the source of memory system bottlenecks. A large body of work has been contributed to memory profiling, however, most adopts instrumentation, simulator which suffers heavy overhead, or hardware performance counter which is lack of detail trace information. Furthermore, correlating the raw memory address traces with object-relative information allows us to separate regular pattern for certain object from the irregular mixed, thus helps the optimization. In this paper, we …