<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Growable stack is basically nonsense.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>True that stack allocation has large downside that picking a stack size is impossible. But it is super fast.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Once we have NT/C backend that doesn't use a thread local, & we have cooperative suspend, I'd like to try writing an NT driver with Modula-3.. limited stack space there. :)</div><div>(hm...what if we <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">can't wrap the thread entry? Maybe ok.)</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Right, C++ is the answer, once I have my own compiler. :)</div><div><br></div><div><br> - Jay (briefly/pocket-sized-computer-aka-phone)</div><div><br>On Oct 2, 2012, at 12:53 PM, Dragiša Durić <<a href="mailto:dragisha@m3w.org">dragisha@m3w.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>I don't need stack allocated object. <div><br></div><div>I don't need to have lot's of big stacks in my multithreaded program. Can you implement growable stack? Is it worth your while?</div><div><br></div><div>I need even less a hassle of hand-selecting stack size, for threads where I need stack objects and other threads.</div><div><br></div><div>As Anthony said. At this time and age… </div><div><br></div><div>I am sorry to even mention that, but maybe you just need C++? Or C++ without "a bit" of fat? Like..., 60% of language.</div><div><br></div><div>I think we just need even better collector that we currently have. One passing Mika's thread test :).</div><div><br></div><div>dd</div><div>
<br><div><div>On Sep 30, 2012, at 8:06 AM, Jay K wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; "><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif">I don't just want UNTRACED OBJECT.</font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif">I also want stack allocated objects.</font></div></span></span></blockquote></div><br></div></div></blockquote></body></html>