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

[Zoltan Somogyi]

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.
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