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> There are, or may be, arguments for why stacks needed to be small on ancient machines. The history is fascinating, but it is not relevant to today’s systems,
by laserbeam 3y ago
> There are, or may be, arguments for why stacks needed to be small on ancient machines. The history is fascinating, but it is not relevant to today’s systems, other than tiny embedded ones.
If a stack doesn't very comfortably fit in L1 cache, then I'd wager you're paying a high price for it regardless of how new the system is.