······@hushmail.com writes:
> Could someone explain what's meant by fixlen allocation and standard
> allocation in time's output:
>
> CL-USER 93 > (time (dot-product *a* *b*))
>
> 0.2 seconds used.
> Standard Allocation 32 bytes.
> Fixlen Allocation 110022 bytes.
> 2000000
>
> I've checked the manual, but the documentation doesn't seem to be in sync...
Certain fixed length objects are allocated specially, and are listed
as fixlen allocation in the output of time; IIRC this is just the
total number of bytes of cons cells. Standard allocation is the count
of all other types of allocation.