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| author | Nathan Long <him@nathanmlong.com> | 2022-04-21 09:50:54 -0400 |
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| committer | Nathan Long <him@nathanmlong.com> | 2022-04-22 11:47:30 -0400 |
| commit | 8693f22cc9a0ffc5d30232b83c4d64cb6e015b1b (patch) | |
| tree | bfa448805f7e7bfdd7d7a281b428e94da10d5fc2 /system | |
| parent | a7b98023a770dae237c6733ef4b287f29615f6bb (diff) | |
| download | erlang-8693f22cc9a0ffc5d30232b83c4d64cb6e015b1b.tar.gz | |
Show how to get the system word size
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| -rw-r--r-- | system/doc/efficiency_guide/advanced.xml | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/system/doc/efficiency_guide/advanced.xml b/system/doc/efficiency_guide/advanced.xml index c545d22a8a..bdcf92529b 100644 --- a/system/doc/efficiency_guide/advanced.xml +++ b/system/doc/efficiency_guide/advanced.xml @@ -39,7 +39,9 @@ <p>The unit of measurement is memory words. There exists both a 32-bit and a 64-bit implementation. A word is therefore 4 bytes or - 8 bytes, respectively.</p> + 8 bytes, respectively. The value for a running system can be + determined by calling <seeerl marker="erts:erlang#system_info_wordsize"> + <c>erlang:system_info(wordsize)</c></seeerl>.</p> <table> <row> <cell><em>Data Type</em></cell> |