>
> "stack allocation" is really bad news for any program that heavily relies on
> recursion to do its job. In this case it may be better to have a stack that
> grows upwards because the size of the heap can be predicted better than the size
> of the stack. I have had programs that went several tens of millions of
> recusions deep on x86 32 bits. I do not know why they worked :)
IIRC windows dynamically grows the stack if the application runs off the 
end of it and there is a pretty big chunk of address space availible for 
it to grow into.
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