2 memsize - number of bytes required for value including overhead
13 This is analogous to the C operator sizeof. It attempts to assess
14 the number of bytes in memory used to store a value and all its
15 components plus all of the related structue overhead. Unlike
16 sizeof(x), this builtin includes overhead.
18 Unlike size(x), this builtin incldues the trailing \0 byte on the
21 Unlike sizeof(x), this builtin includes the size demonitor for integers
22 and the imaginary part for complex values. Storage for holding
23 0, 1 and -1 values are also included.
25 The number returned by memsize(x) may be less than the actual number
26 used because, for example, more memory may have been allocated for
27 a string than is used: only the characters up to and including the
28 first '\0' are counted in calculating the contribution of the
31 The number returned by memsize(x) may be greater (and indeed
32 substantially greater) than the number of bytes actually used.
38 the numerical information for a, A[0], A[1], A[2] are stored in the
39 same memory, so the memory used for A is the same as if
40 its 3 elements were null values. The value returned by
41 memsize(A) is calculated as A were defined by:
43 mat A[3] = {sqrt(2), sqrt(2), sqrt(2)}.
45 Similar sharing of memory occurs with literal strings.
47 For associative arrays, both the name part and the value part of
48 the name/value pair are counted.
50 The minimum value for memsize(x) occurs for the null and error values.
54 The results for examples like these will depend to some extent on
55 the system being used. The following were for an SGI R4k machine
58 > print memsize(null())
61 > print memsize(0), memsize(3), memsize(2^32 - 1), memsize(2^32)
64 > x = sqrt(2, 1e-100); print memsize(x), memsize(num(x)), memsize(den(x))
67 > print memsize(list()), memsize(list(1)), memsize(list(1,2))
70 > print memsize(list())
73 > print ,memsize(list(1)),memsize(list(1,2)),memsize(list(1,2,3))
76 > mat A[] = {1}; mat B[] = {1,2}; mat C[] = {1,2,3}; mat D[100,100];
77 > print memsize(A), memsize(B), memsize(C), memsize(D)
81 > obj point P = {1,2,3}; print memsize(P)
85 It is assumed memsize(x) will fit into a system long integer.
91 size, sizeof, fsize, strlen, digits