Core: Half the memory usage by not storing arguments

volatility/framework/interfaces/objects.py

@@ -273,9 +273,8 @@ class Template:
         """Stores the keyword arguments for later object creation."""
         # Allow the updating of template arguments whilst still in template form
         super().__init__()
-        self._arguments = arguments
         empty_dict = {}  # type: Dict[str, Any]
-        self._vol = collections.ChainMap(empty_dict, self._arguments, {'type_name': type_name})
+        self._vol = collections.ChainMap(empty_dict, arguments, {'type_name': type_name})
 
     @property
     def vol(self) -> ReadOnlyMapping:

volatility/framework/objects/templates.py

@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ class ObjectTemplate(interfaces.objects.Template):
     """
 
     def __init__(self, object_class: Type[interfaces.objects.ObjectInterface], type_name: str, **arguments) -> None:
+        arguments['object_class'] = object_class
         super().__init__(type_name = type_name, **arguments)
-        self._arguments['object_class'] = object_class
 
         proxy_cls = self.vol.object_class.VolTemplateProxy
         for method_name in proxy_cls._methods:
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ class ObjectTemplate(interfaces.objects.Template):
         return self.vol.object_class.VolTemplateProxy.children(self)
 
     def relative_child_offset(self, child: str) -> int:
-        """Returns the relative offset of a child of the templated object (see 
+        """Returns the relative offset of a child of the templated object (see
         :class:`~volatility.framework.interfaces.objects.ObjectInterface.VolTem
         plateProxy`)"""
         return self.vol.object_class.VolTemplateProxy.relative_child_offset(self, child)