in the old old days, whos function also give total variable size, how do i do that now [ver 9.4.0.813654 (R2018a)]

I remember in the old old days, whos function also give total variable size, how do i do that now [ver 9.4.0.813654 (R2018a)].

I never have the need to do that till now and I am too lazy to copy and paste and sum the variable size for each variable.

I want to check the total amount of storage needed if I store the variables that were specified in whos.

Thanks

Steve Leung

[KALYAN ACHARJYA]

I am too lazy to copy and paste and sum the variable size for each variable.

Are you sure?

[Geoff Hayes]

Stephen - according to whos the size is still displayed. Can you show us an example of a variable, calling whos and the output?

[madhan ravi]

Agree with Geoff Hayes, please illustrate with a scenario.

[Stephen Leung]

sorry using length as suggested in the answer will not work. let me give you my example:

I have the following variables:

dish_noise, dish_signal, dish_interference

array_noise, array_signal, array_interference.

I execute the command: whos dish* array*

the 3rd column of the output gives me the byte size for each variable

I am too lazy to copy the output of the whos command into my editor and spend time editor the untitled file to generate the code to sum bytes of the variables

of course, I can do:

(length(dish_noise)+length(dish_signal)+...+length(array_interference))*16

if all my variables are complex-double

but what if some of them are real, some of them are logical?

what if I want to store only 50 of of the 100 variables that I have in the workspace?

Answer 1

[Steven Lord]

You call whos as normal?

>> x = magic(4);
>> y = struct('foo', 1, 'bar', 2);
>> z = ["apple"; "banana"; "cherry"];
>> whos
  Name      Size            Bytes  Class     Attributes

  x         4x4               128  double              
  y         1x1               368  struct              
  z         3x1               258  string              

Because the whos function still returns the size of the variable when called on normal workspace variables, there has to be more to your question. How exactly are you calling whos and on what type of variable are you calling it?

I want to check the total amount of storage needed if I store the variables that were specified in whos.

Note that this may get tricky if you take into account the copy-on-write behavior of MATLAB. A copy of a variable may look like it takes up the same amount of space as the original, but it may share a substantial chunk of that memory. The bytes column of the output of whos also does not account for object properties, like the properties of a graphics object.

>> [x, y, z] = peaks;
>> h = surf(x, y, z);
>> whos x y z h
  Name       Size            Bytes  Class                                      Attributes

  h          1x1                 8  matlab.graphics.chart.primitive.Surface              
  x         49x49            19208  double                                               
  y         49x49            19208  double                                               
  z         49x49            19208  double