How to get the ACTUAL size of a table

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#1

Before you go click that “send reply” with your 9 cps of yours and say that table.getn and # exists for a solution, This is not what I mean.

Here is what i want to make:

i want to make some computer of terminal, that has limited ram and all that. But, # and table.getn would not fit this usecase.

Here is why:

Lets say I have my table called ram

local ram = {}

now lets say i add a string and numbers.

local ram = {}
-- generate stuff on ram
table.insert(ram, "s")
table.insert(ram, 55)
print(#ram)

Two issues:

  1. If i extend the stringor number, it would still count as one of the values in the array.
  2. Regardless it dosent get the size of the table either way.

So i want to get the size of ram (in kbs), is that possible?

Btw sorry if i poorly explained it.

#2

So if I’m reading this right, you’re trying to get the filesize of a table?

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#3

Yes

#4

After a quick google search. You could test this and see if this does what you’re looking for, but I’m not sure if it does as I haven’t tried it.

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#5

Genius solution but i want it to be in vanilla lua too.

But thanks alot

#6

bro just use table.getn, simple

#7

Please read the post before replying. They are asking for how to get a table’s size in bytes.

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#8

Oh, thats not possible in vanilla lua

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#9

A simple way to phrase this question would have been, “How much memory does a given table consume?”, but regardless, a search would have answered your question. Please refer to the following article:

#10

Well “how to get the ACTUAL SIZE of the table” works too but some people misinterpret it, But thanks

#11

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