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norir
27d ago
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If you have well defined boundaries, you can move the stack to an arbitrarily large chunk of memory before the recursive call and restore it to the system stack upon completion.
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chuckadams
27d ago
And if you never do reach completion, you can just garbage collect that chunk. AKA "Cheney on the MTA":
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/214448.214454
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