> On 25 Apr 2019, at 15:27, Esteban Maringolo <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Sven,
> 
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 10:04 AM Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]> wrote:
>> This way, you should run out of heap before the stack gets too large, since 
>> you allocate and hold on to an array in each frame.
> 
> I don't understand the purpose of such expression, since I'm not
> writing recursive code, where I pay special attention or save the
> image before running it, but I'm trying to find a way around
> accidental deep recursions.

I know, it was an experiment.

> However I ran these examples in Dolphin and Pharo 7, and in Dolphin it
> triggers an memory exhaustion exception right away, and in Pharo it
> grows in memory use, slower than with the previous example, but with
> the same behavior (unresponsive image once the memory fills the
> available OS memory).

Too bad, this is a VM issue anyway.

> Regards,
> 
> Esteban A. Maringolo
> 


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