From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:18:11 -0400 From: Russ Cox To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] any success with current plan9port on sunos5.8? In-Reply-To: <20040611135804.GB6421@mero.morphisms.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <200406111351.i5BDpUU20806@plg2.math.uwaterloo.ca> <8abf22a4b0a9b3fbfd0c7709d7be288e@vitanuova.com> <20040611135804.GB6421@mero.morphisms.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9b949140-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > Maybe they're as clever as the GNU folks > and use a ton of stack space to do qsort(). Now, now. The only reason the GNU folks use a lot of stack space for qsort() is the big buffer that they read /proc/meminfo into. The sort itself is very careful about how much stack it uses. Russ