Re:Can a simple algebra test predict programming aptitude?
by sklogic on Monday December 15, 2014 @04:03PM
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This is a memory leak now, not a stack overflow.
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Re:Can a simple algebra test predict programming aptitude?
by Retric on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @09:27AM
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Thus demonstrating a finite stack. "Stackless" just a more efficent way to use memory. You could get the same things from dynamicly allocating and dealocating stack space as needed.
Put another way, allocating 1GB of stack space on a machine with 2GB of RAM is at worst the equivelent of using a stackless lanugage on a machine limited 1 GB of RAM.
PS: It's actually worse as stackless languages are stricly slower than actually having the equivelent stack space pre alocated and you need to put an pointer for each stack call pluss overhead for alocating memory.