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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH][5] Make temporary stack resizable (fixes #


From: Evan Hanson
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH][5] Make temporary stack resizable (fixes #1098)
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 06:55:03 +1300

On 2015-11-01  1:36, address@hidden wrote:
> Is this really necessary? I think runtime.c is already complicated
> enough as it is. I understand your intent, but I'm always wary of
> "arbitrary fixes to reasonable limitations, just because they are
> limitations".

I agree about the runtime, and I don't really care about the argument
limit personally, but in this case I think the benefit outweighs the
cost: the change doesn't look too hairy and the memory savings for
programs that don't need crazy-many-args is nothing to sneeze at. Not
always having to pay that cost for a weird and probably stupid use case
is great, IMHO.

Evan



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