From: Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>
Date: 2005-03-19T10:38:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Maximum stack depth

On Mar 18, 2005, at 6:15 PM, Thomas Hurst wrote:
> * Robert Klemme (bob.news@gmx.net) wrote:
>>> 1891 levels in my old redhat linux 7.3 box, ruby 1.8.2 built from 
>>> source
> On FreeBSD 5:
>   49165
> I think I can live with that.  Solaris 9 fares somewhat worse:
>   3921
> But not as badly as Linux 2.6.8.1:
>   2091
> Or WinXP:

Man, you are all awesome compared to MacOS X :|

[Slim:~] gavinkis% uname -a
Darwin Slim.local 7.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.8.0: Wed Dec 22 
14:26:17 PST 2004; root:xnu/xnu-517.11.1.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC  Power 
Macintosh powerpc

[Slim:~] gavinkis% ruby --version
ruby 1.8.2 (2004-11-06) [powerpc-darwin7.6.0]

[Slim:~] gavinkis% ruby tmp.rb
tmp.rb:9:in `ack': stack level too deep (SystemStackError)
         from tmp.rb:9:in `ack'
         from tmp.rb:9:in `ack'
         from tmp.rb:9:in `ack'
         from tmp.rb:9:in `ack'
         from tmp.rb:9:in `ack'
         from tmp.rb:9:in `ack'
         from tmp.rb:9:in `ack'
         from tmp.rb:9:in `ack'
          ... 600 levels...
         from tmp.rb:9:in `ack'
         from tmp.rb:9:in `ack'
         from tmp.rb:9:in `ack'
         from tmp.rb:14

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