slavapestov/factor — pull request #1080 by sstewartgallus (2014-06-19 21:36:46+00:00)
Title: Lower the stack usage of a few functions

In vm/compaction.cpp I rescoped some variables to lower the stack usage
from 592 to 560 bytes. I wasn't very successful with this. The stack
usage is larger than it looks because methods on the structures used
take an implicit this pointer and a reference to the data (so the data
has to live out it's full scope and can't be put in a register).

In vm/debug.cpp I made a large (1024 bytes) stack allocated buffer
simply dynamically allocated.

In vm/os-unix.cpp I rescoped signal handling structures to not coincide
with each other and reduced a very large (1024 bytes) amount of stack
usage to less than 500 bytes.