On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Ken Wesson <kwess...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 5:45 PM, David Nolen <dnolen.li...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Ken Wesson <kwess...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Meikel Brandmeyer <m...@kotka.de> wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > Am 29.12.2010 um 19:36 schrieb Ken Wesson:
> >> >
> >> >> Who needs to muck about with the stack and recur when you've got
> >> >> laziness? :)
> >> >
> >> > Even then you have to take care, because stacking lazy seq on lazy seq
> >> > on … might also result in a stackoverflow.
> >>
> >> True, but it's far less common to have lazy operations like maps
> >> nested 100,000 deep than it is to have seqs 100,000 items long. :)
> >
> > You only need to nest lazy operations 1000 levels deep before you blow
> the
> > stack w/ default JVM settings (on OS X, I imagine it's similar for other
> > systems).
>
> Eww. Apple's JVM sucketh greatly. I'd be surprised if the default
> maximum stack depth isn't at *least* 32,768 on Sun's Hotspot, given
> how rarely I get SOEs outside of actually unbounded recursions (and
> how blasted long the resulting traces are when they're dump into my
> repl! So much for using backscroll afterward).
>

Doh, actually, I might have been messing around with my JVM stack size
recently. I see that the default stack depth on OS X is more like ~43000 :)

David

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