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It's a bit ridiculous to complicate recursive algorithms just because the stack sizes haven't been increased in the past 3 decades. Nowadays we have at least 4

by ynik 5y ago

It's a bit ridiculous to complicate recursive algorithms just because the stack sizes haven't been increased in the past 3 decades. Nowadays we have at least 48bit virtual address space available; what's the harm in giving each thread a full GB of stack?

sys_64738 5y ago
Generally recursion is not something you want in production code. It's cute for academia when studying algorithms but where there's an iterative alternative that should be used.
lonjil 5y ago
If you need a bigger stack, you can get one. This stuff is merely the default.