Re: ideas for returning memory to the OS

Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote:
> That's another point on which there might be some very significant gain 
> to have : Objects that have a "current function call" lifespan should be 
> *fully* allocated on the stack.

There are actually places where we do the opposite: allocate (large) 
objects with stack semantics from a heap arena.  The problem is that 
stack space used to be pretty limited at least on Mac OS Classic.  I 
don't think OSX has the same restrictions, does it?  Does Windows? 
Could we move to direct stack allocation for those, and is it desirable 
to do so?

-Boris