OpenEuphoria

Re: goto: it's conceded

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at yah?o.co?> Jun 03, 2008
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Kat wrote:
> 
> Derek Parnell wrote:
> > 
> > Kat wrote:
> > 
> > > What is the depth limit to nested for/while loops in Eu?
> > 
> > I think it is only limited by available memory. There is no hard-coded
> > limit.
> 
> When you say "available memory", would that be 1Kbytes local stack space per
> procedure, or 64k global stack space, or the 2 gigabytes the OS will let the
> program have? Or somewhere in between that's undefined?
> 
> Yes, real world, i hit TurboPascal's stack limit with nested loops.
> 
> Kat

Hmm. Not sure where the 1K and the 64k numbers came from, but I don't think that
Euphoria's loops, at least in the interpreter, rely upon the machine stack.

So I choose what's behind door number three -- the total process memory.

I thought I had seen the 262144 number in some build files, but I couldn't find
it when researching your answer. I definitely saw the numbers 49152 and 131072 in
there though...

(grep -i "stack" *.* in the source directory).

--
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple
system that works.
--John Gall's 15th law of Systemantics.

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."
--C.A.R. Hoare

j.