Ronald Oussoren added the comment: On 30 May, 2013, at 14:50, STINNER Victor <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote:
> > STINNER Victor added the comment: > >> The patch changes the maximum stack size from 8 to 16 MByte, neither of >> which is huge and shouldn't cause other problems. > > On Mac OS X: Is the memory allocated at Python startup, or on demand, > as the stack grows? If I am correct, the physical memory is allocated > on demand on Linux. Memory for the stack is allocated on demand, the parameter sets the maximum size that the stack can grow to. See also man ld(1). Ronald ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18075> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
