RFR(L): JDK-8046936 : JEP 270: Reserved Stack Areas for Critical Sections

[Doug Lea]

On 11/16/2015 08:00 PM, David Holmes wrote:
>> I've tried that :-) The amount of code being executed with
>> the ReservedStackAccess privilege tends to increase very
>> quickly and I was concerned about keeping the size of the
>> reserved area small.
>
> How much space does each level of calling need? I know that is hard to answer
> but are we talking a few bytes, few kb, many kb?
>

Relatedly, could someone spell out in more detail the
worst-case behavior of StackOverflowError? Knowing this
might be helpful in some cases in which we might be able to
at least preserve minimal sanity without needing to reserve.

-Doug