On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 21:05:10 -0500
William Lovas <wlovas@stwing.upenn.edu> wrote:

> How about the strikingly appropriately named Sys.word_size? :)

Yep, thats a winner. Thanks.

For the archive, I now have:

   let x = Gc.stat () in
   printf "Memory used : %d kb\n\n" (x.heap_words / (1024 / (Sys.word_size / 8))) ;;

which gives what seems to be a sensible result.

Erik
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