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		norir 17 hours ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Allocating on the Stack 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 16 hours 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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