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4 Sep 2024 09:14:42 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Interesting performance paper  
From: Bill Pragnell
Date: 14 Jun 2010 17:40:01
Message: <web.4c16a0dd7fcd67b84f28787e0@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> One thing I discovered back at uni: If your Java program accidentally
> goes into an infinite loop, it dies almost instantly with a stack
> overflow.

That's just because the VM only claims a small amount of RAM to start with...
quite irritating actually, it took me ages to work out I had to increase its
allocation to get my fractal plotter to be able to hold a decent image :-)

(but then it was too slow anyway so I rewrote it in C)


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