When do you worry about stack size?

Question

When you are programming in a language that allows you to use automatic allocation for very large objects, when and how do you worry about stack size? Are there any rules o

Answer 1

You start to worry about stack size when

• someone on your team cunningly invents a recursive function that goes on and on and on...
• you create a thread factory and suddenly need a tenfold of the stack that you used to need (each thread needs a stack => the more threads you have, the less free space remains for a given stack size)