3 Nov
2007
3 Nov
'07
11:41 p.m.
On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 11:40 +0000, Adrian Hey wrote:
Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
because program that require 8mb stack, will probably require 8gb when processing more data :)
So.. what? You could say the same about heap, which was rather the point of the earlier thread.
I personally would prefer a small stack. I do not write my programs with the intent that they should take up linear or more stack space and I want to know relatively quickly if they are using an excessive amount. I don't want something to use O(n) stack when it could be using O(1). Usually, it's relatively easy to fix "stack leaks" and indeed can lead to better algorithms, e.g. using foldr v. foldl.