What's with the low memory limit on codechef

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What are the memory limit and stack size on CodeChef?

The limit of the memory for a single program execution is 1.5GB. This limit includes every aspect of memory consumption: stack, heap, memory required by virtual machine (e.g. in Java family languages), memory required by interpreter (e.g. PHP, Python). The stack size varies for different languages: Java has the limit of 64MB (increased from default value of 1MB), every language that is compiled to the executable file (e.g. C, C++, etc.) has no limit for the stack size, i.e. the stack is…