From: Paul Hanchett <paulha@...>
Date: 2005-03-18T04:11:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Maximum stack depth

(Showing my ignorance:) I thought windows apps had an automatically 
expanding stack.

Glenn Parker wrote:
> Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> 
>>
>> Ruby uses C stack, so that you need to use ulimit to specify a limit
>> on stack depth.
> 
> 
> Thank you for the tip, but I'm afraid ulimit is not an option under 
> WinXP, and I have no idea what the corresponding tweak would be.
> 
> I will suggest to the Shootout folks that they try boosting the stack 
> size with ulimit for the Ackerman test.
> 
> Does anybody know the stack "overhead" for method invokation in Ruby? If 
> vruz gets (only) 1891 levels on a linux box, and typical default stack 
> size limit is 1 MB, then I calculate a little over 500 bytes for each 
> level of recursion, but the stack size limit is just a guess.
>