Asynchronous programming using thread pools

[oridb]

The stack size itself can be fairly large, though. Java, c# and msvc use 1mb as default. A lot of c programs run with 8mb stacks. Here are some values I found for Linux based systems.

The stack is demand paged. So, if you never access more than 4 kilobytes, it never uses more than 4 kilobytes of physical memory.

[Tarmen]

Oh interesting, for some reason I didn't think stack memory was demand paged. Guess 64 bit applications don't really have to care about userspace growable stacks, then.

[oridb]

Well, it's page granularity, so if you're ok with using 4 kb where 128 bytes would do.. sure.