Go's march to low-latency GC

[Sergey Podobry via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 9 July 2016 at 13:48:41 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On 07/09/2016 02:48 AM, ikod wrote:
>> If I made a wrong guess and
>> ask for too small stack then programm may crash. If I ask for 
>> too large
>> stack then I probably waste resources.
>
> Nope, this is exactly the point. You can demand crazy 10 MB of 
> stack for each fiber and only the actually used part will be 
> allocated by kernel.

Remember that virtual address space is limited on 32-bit 
platforms. Thus spawning 2000 threads 1 MB stack each will occupy 
all available VA space and you'll get an allocation failure (even 
if the real memory usage is low).