In a typical Lisp system you measure runtime and you'll get GC time, too. In Common Lisp you use the TIME macro for that. In LispWorks I would for example set

In a typical Lisp system you measure runtime and you'll get GC time, too. In Common Lisp you use the TIME macro for that. In LispWorks I would for example set a memory check for a certain memory size. That would call a function when memory grows over a limit. You then don't need to look at a heap dump, you can inspect the Lisp memory from the inside with the usual tools...