Hi Christophe,

On 30 Nov 2009, at 21:52, Christophe Raffalli wrote:
 not carefull,
> although quite rare in OCaml).
>> On first compiling my codebase (about 100,000 lines) on a machine with limited stack size, it took only about a day to fix up.
>> 
>> I agree that, morally, stack space available and general memory available should be roughly equivalent concepts (like with Linux), but sometimes it's easier to give in - after all, how are you to estimate the size you actually need accurately?
>> 
> I do not understand what you mean ? stack size + heap size = maximum of
> available memory as in linux is the best ?

In the sense that, since Linux expands the stack as needed, one needn't worry about a program which uses x Mb of stack being any more likely to 'crash' than one which uses x Mb of heap.

So, the total usage of a program (stack + heap) is the only metric needed. Unless (as you say) performance is to be considered.

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