how to run out of memory: let binaries leverage the heap

[Matthias Lang]

Laszlo Varga writes:
 > Hi,
 > sorry for my stupidity, but I've been thought that
 > tail recursion needs constant space (as it is a loop).

 > Then why binary garbage?

Tail recursion gets you a constant number of stack frames. Typically,
it also gets you constant _stack_ space. The data in my function
consists of binaries (which are allocated from a special pool) and
references to the binaries (which are allocated from the heap).

Matthias