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klochner on Oct 4, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Node.js has jumped the shark

Best part of the post was where someone suggested he increase his heap size to 1GB to get a fibonacci algorithm to run.

   After pointing this out, a member of the Node.js
   community (post now deleted) suggested I might have an
   obsolete version of Node with a 1GB heap limit and that
   I recompile without the 1GB restriction so that this 
   retarded algorithm can continue eating up all my system RAM.

chc on Oct 4, 2011 [–]

It is curious that an array with 1 million doubles would take anywhere near a gigabyte in V8. 1000000 * 8B is about 8MB. Even with 5000% overhead for the data structure itself, that's only 400MB. Where did the other 600 MB go?

calloc on Oct 4, 2011 | [–]

Call stack?

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