Oh, right. The stackframe will be cleaned up at the end of every event loop. And since events don't interrupt the one and only thread, even a long-running context of the caller will end up with at most a +1 to the stack depth.
Thanks. I will have to fins another excuse to learn about the V8 stack. I have some tail-recursive code that I'm looking to port to node. :) On Mar 22, 2012 9:34 PM, "mscdex" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 22, 11:20 pm, "C. Mundi" <[email protected]> wrote: > > These respawn() functions are recursive and, in particular, tail > recursive > > (or could be assuming no sneaky side effects). So (a) how is the depth > of > > the node stack set, and (b) does node support any tail recursion > > elimination? > > The effect of using the code I mentioned on the call stack should be > minimal to none because they (exec and spawn) are both asynchronous > function calls. > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
