From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: stack overflow limit
Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 15:51:22 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv8vumti5e.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <62EAF87B4F294B2FB9F2ED7EC6E562D0@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Wed, 4 May 2011 10:04:40 -0700")
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-04 18:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-04 17:04 stack overflow limit Drew Adams
2011-05-04 18:51 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-05-04 20:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-05 7:16 ` Andy Wingo
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