[erlang-questions] Size of a map key in words

[Richard A. O'Keefe]

> On 30/06/2017, at 12:23 PM, Michael Truog <mjtruog@REDACTED> wrote:
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> http://erlang.org/doc/efficiency_guide/advanced.html#id68923 has the memory information and https://github.com/okeuday/erlang_term shows how to get this size during runtime.

Those two disagree.  For example, erlang_term says
Small Map (N =< 32):
  4 words + 2 words per key/value pair + the size of each pair
whereas advanced.html says
Small Map
  5 words + the size of all keys and values.

The latter just *has* to be wrong, the former is at least believable.