On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 09:41 +0100, Nicolas Cannasse wrote:

> But using the stack is getting speed against correctness, since it will 
> overflow for big lists.

But that is an artefact of Unix implementations
designed for flat C code, rather than FPLs. In theory
both stack and heap are bounded only by the smaller of
artificial (that is, deliberately imposed) limits and
total address space.

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