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Re: stack overflow limit
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: stack overflow limit |
Date: |
Wed, 04 May 2011 15:51:22 -0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> Not a request or a suggestion. I'm just wondering about the stack size limit
> (e.g. for regexp search, search.c).
> Would it make sense to make it any bigger, given that machines
> nowadays are more powerful and have more memory, or do you consider
> that pretty much all such stack overflows (e.g. for regexp matching)
> are just due to poorly chosen regexps?
IIRC this depends on the OS stack size, which hasn't grown nearly as
fast as hardware resources.
Stefan