Dec. 2, 2002
4:38 a.m.
On Monday, Dec 2, 2002, at 11:30 Europe/Amsterdam, Guido van Rossum wrote:
I vaguely recall that the number 50000 is somewhat historically significant, but I don't remember why. But it works on all other platforms I know.
Except all other platforms with small stacks (MacOS9, WinCE, probably more).
Do you know if setting the stack limit actually allocates that much memory for the stack in the process in Mac OSX, or does it only reserve VM space (like on traditional Unix)?
I don't know, but I can't imagine it does anything more than reserve VM space. -- - Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen@oratrix.com> http://www.cwi.nl/~jack - - If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma Goldman -