Avoiding Stack Overflow
Charles has a hilarious post on his weblog about his internal stack overflowing when assigned more than 2 tasks. Upon the arrival of the 3rd task, he experiences a stack overflow...
Near the end of the day, the boss walked up to my desk and asked me how a third task (that had neatly slipped my mind) was progressing. What I experienced could only be described as a stack overflow. The attempt to add the third task to my stack caused the whole mess to fall over, leaving me babbling like an idiot for a few seconds while I tried to reconstruct enough state to allow me to provide an intelligent response.
Funny Stuff! Turns out since my move to the Architecture Team a couple months ago, I've had to up my stack frame size to about 6 before my brain turns to mush... Unfortunately, a stack frame of this size means my productivity as a developer has hit an all time low!
[Listening to: Acumen Nation - Liquid Hater]
Phil: thanks for letting me know I forgot to link Charles' blog. I guess I was in the middle of a context switch when I posted this item =)