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Re:Why you can have millions of goroutines but only thousand... by cryptonector on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @01:14AM (#18173493)
When you have terabytes of RAM you want large pages anyways.
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Re:Why you can have millions of goroutines but only thousand... by gpderetta on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @03:40AM (#18174006)
As each stack will need to use [1] at least one page of physical memory, large pages are not great for stacks as they will normally waste memory.

[1] for classic contiguous stacks of course. That doesn't apply for separately allocated frames or segmented stacks.

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