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		MrBuddyCasino on Nov 13, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The future of M:N threading Now I'm confused. This comment says that the stack memory is not allocated by the OS unless actually needed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6728030 Is this not true?

rdtsc on Nov 13, 2013 [–]

That is right, the full 8MB or 10MB or whatever of max is not being paged in.

I am stupid. I'll correct the initial comment.

Thanks

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