[m-dev.] for review: change default stack size

[Fergus Henderson]

On 15-Dec-2000, Zoltan Somogyi <zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 14-Dec-2000, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > 	This will also improve performance for programs that
> > 	don't use much memory, since currently the conservative
> > 	garbage collector scans the whole of the det stack,
> > 	including those parts which aren't used.
> 
> Unless this effect is significant (e.g. gets a speedup of at least two percent
> on a program), I think the problems it causes are not worth it. 3.5Mb just
> isn't that much these days.

I get a speedup of roughly 2.5% on nrev.

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