[lug] Huge stack size--any reason to avoid?

[Zan Lynx]

On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 13:24 -0600, Vince Dean wrote:
[snip]
> For new work, I would first give serious consideration to a 
> language like Java, with automatic memory management, other 
> things being equal.

You don't need to switch languages to get better memory management.  You
can use garbage collection in C or C++.  On my Gentoo system the package
is called boehm-gc, and it gives you a decent garbage collector that you
can replace malloc, calloc, realloc and free with.

In C++ you can use garbage collection libraries (boehm-gc includes C++
support) or you can get nearly the same effects by disciplined use of
factory methods and smart pointers.
-- 
Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>
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