Project Loom technical questions

[Andrew Haley]

On 7/31/21 2:19 PM, Ron Pressler wrote:
> The default stack size for platform threads in Java is 1 MB on Linux and Mac. Kernel threads cannot resize 
> their stack because they do not know how it’s used by the language; user-mode threads can.

Just one small nit here: this is slightly misleading because platform
thread stacks are lazily allocated. So, while platform threads cannot
shrink their stacks, they do grow them.

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Andrew Haley  (he/him)
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