From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: #'sizeof operator? Date: 1999/01/11 Message-ID: <3125044969307401@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 431208154 References: <77b6gv$liv$1@Godzilla.cs.nwu.edu> mail-copies-to: never Organization: Naggum Software; +47 8800 8879; http://www.naggum.no Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * David Bakhash | I'm using ACL 5.0, on MS Windows. But all I need is an estimate on this: | | (size-of "") | | and any implementation of Lisp on any system will probably give me a good | enough idea. It's just an parameter for an algorithm of mine to work. | it's not the crux, by any means. (defun string-array-2 (n) (cons (make-string n) (make-string n))) compile it, run it, inspect the return value, look at the addresses of the string objects. increase n. repeat until satisfied. #:Erik