Rust updates
David Piepgrass
qwertie256 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 11 11:31:22 PDT 2012
>>> The trouble with segmented stacks are:
>>>
>>> 1. they have a significant runtime penalty
>> Why?
> Extra instructions generated for each function.
Every function? Why?
>>> 2. interfacing to C code becomes problematic
>> Isn't it possible to auto-commit new pages when C code needs
>> it?
...
> There's no way to predict how much stack arbitrary C code will
> use.
Presumably one does not call arbitrary C code. Usually one knows
what one might call in advance and can plan accordingly (and even
if it is arbitrary, one at least knows *that* one is going to
call C code and plan accordingly. Most C code doesn't allocate
more than a few megabytes on the stack).
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