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by pcwalton 4175 days ago
> Since libgreen did have massive stacks and one could not spawn 100s of thousands of tasks without changing system limits like overcommit

Well, you could customize the stack size, and we did when running stress tests like that. You don't need to change system settings. The only difference is that you have to know how much stack your "goroutine" is going to need up front.