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By askd, history, 3 years ago, In English

Hey everyone!

I encountered a very strange RE today on 1270F - Awesome Substrings.

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According to https://mirror.codeforces.com/blog/entry/79 blog, GCC is used with -Wl,--stack=268435456 option. Which increases the stack size limit to 256M, up from a rather small default.

The 512M memory limit for that particular problem is there for the combined stack+heap size. The stack is still limited to 256M regardless. Moreover, you are very much lucky and privileged as a C++ user. Many of the other programming languages on the codeforces platform have ridiculously small stack sizes, which makes implementing deep recursive algorithms difficult.

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    Sweet, thanks! Also C++ supremacy wooo