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Now I'm confused. This comment says that the stack memory is not allocated by the OS unless actually needed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6728030 https:

Now I'm confused. This comment says that the stack memory is not allocated by the OS unless actually needed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6728030 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6728030 Is this not true?

rdtsc 13y ago
That is right, the full 8MB or 10MB or whatever of max is not being paged in. I am stupid. I'll correct the initial comment. Thanks