Forgetting about the problem of memory

https://davmac.wordpress.com/2022/04/30/forgetting-about-the-problem-of-memory/ · There’s a pattern that emerged in software some time ago, that bothers me: in a nutshell, it is that it’s become acceptable to assume that memory is unlimited. More precisely, it is the…

Tilman · 1 Comment ·

Sunday 1. May 2022

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I think an important issue with OOM errors is, that in many cases there is genuinely nothing useful we can do if we run out of memory. (There are certainly exceptions to this, but I think it’s generally a good default.)

Having it be a built-in assumption will - of course - make it potentially much harder to have a coherent story for what to do when you do care.

Tilman ·

Sunday 1. May 2022