Subj : Re: Best possible stack size for a thread
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Hopwood
Date : Sun Sep 18 2005 02:28 pm

David Schwartz wrote:
> "jambu" <karthikeyan.jambulingam@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>I went thru the links , but they do not point me to the required
>>information . Even thou there is no harm in the memory being large ,
>>iam eager to know is there any way to compute the memory consumption of
>>the thread. But why should the memory be wasted without being used ??
> 
>     Virtual memory is generally not considered a scarce resource.

That's not really true for 32-bit machines. It is for 64-bit machines.
Of course it also depends on the application.

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David Hopwood <david.nospam.hopwood@blueyonder.co.uk>

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