From: John Ky <newhoggy@...>
Date: 2008-12-05T17:08:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Stack level too deep

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Hi Josh,

Fibres do sound interesting.

Anyhow, I'm stuck with 1.8 at the moment.  I had this idea that I could
spawn another thread with a fresh stack and continue the excution on that.
Sadly, it didn't work.  Instead of getting a system stack error at 3467
levels, I'm now getting the same at 61 levels.  Do I not get a new stack
with a new thread?

Thanks

-John

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Joshua Ballanco <jballanc@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> Just a friendly suggestion, but this and your previous query about blocks
> make me wonder if you shouldn't be using a functional language? Ruby has
> very convenient functional syntax but doesn't (at least not to my knowledge)
> do the same sorts of optimizations that more purely functional languages
> will do.
>
> The other option (as I'm watching PragDave's RubyConf talk on 1.9) is to
> use Fibers. Watch the bit of his talk on Fibers at
> http://rubyconf2008.confreaks.com/ruby-19-what-to-expect.html starting
> about 18 min in.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Josh
>
>
>
> On Dec 2, 2008, at 10:34 PM, John Ky wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>>
>> Is there any way for me to increase the stack size?  My stack is huge:
>>
>> playback.rb:38:in `play_back': stack level too deep (SystemStackError)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> -John
>>
>
>
>

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