On Thursday, 16 October 2014 at 22:20:34 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
On Thursday, 16 October 2014 at 19:46:42 UTC, Shucai wrote:
I am doing research on segmented stack mechanisms, and in
addition to academic papers, I am surveying whether segmented
stack mechanism is still useful on 64-bit machines. On 64 bit
machines, why they don’t just use a big enough stack, for
example, 1GB or even larger? Are segmented stacks only useful
for 32 bit machines? Are there other reasons for segmented
stacks on 64 bit machines?
Any response is appreciated, thanks, Shucai
You might want to try asking the Go and Rust mailing lists
since they have a lot of experience with segmented stacks.
"Go 1.3 has changed the implementation of goroutine stacks away
from the old, "segmented" model to a contiguous model. When a
goroutine needs more stack than is available, its stack is
transferred to a larger single block of memory. "
https://golang.org/doc/go1.3
So I guess both of them abandoned segmented stacks.
