I see. I should be blaming the default behavior of pthreads. I did work on a OpenMP library once, and we worked around this problem, plus we gave good error messages. Given the number of HPC sites which use Python, I'd think that Python would have grown similar features. (HPC sites are more likely to have intermediate-sized stack limits due to use of Fortran.)
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