Allocating 8 MB of address space for a stack doesn't really seem like it should be a big deal in a 64 bit world.
@charliesome Well, why not? If stacks are small pulling off a free list is much faster than a syscall.
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@charliesome Sure, that's what I was meaning by a custom allocator :)
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