core.thread.Fiber --- runtime stack overflow unlike goroutines

[Carl Sturtivant via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Friday, 15 August 2014 at 20:11:43 UTC, Carl Sturtivant wrote:
> On Friday, 15 August 2014 at 08:41:30 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
>> On Thursday, 14 August 2014 at 07:46:29 UTC, Carl Sturtivant 
>> wrote:
>>> The default size of the runtime stack for a Fiber is 
>>> 4*PAGESIZE which is very small, and a quick test shows that a 
>>> Fiber suffers a stack overflow that doesn't lead to a clean 
>>> termination when this limit is exceeded.
>>
>> Pass a bigger stack size to the Fiber constructor?
>
> No good if the stack size needed depends dynamically on the 
> computation in that Fiber.

Should have read further down the thread --- you're right as the 
memory is in effect merely reserved virtual memory and isn't 
actually allocated.