Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:57:49 +0100, Don wrote: > Walter Bright wrote: >> I asked this over on stackoverflow.com to see what people using other >> languages have to say, as well as the D community. The reason I ask is >> to see if memory allocation can be allowed in functions marked "nothrow". >> >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/333736/is-out-of-memory-a-recoverable-error >> >> > I don't think it can be recoverable. Or rather, if it is recoverable, it > shouldn't have happened in the first place. > > As far as I can tell, the only thing you could do to recover from an > out-of-memory condition is (1) to free some memory, or (2) to switch to > an algorithm which doesn't need as much memory.
or (3) to fail a self-contained, user initiated, "pure" operation. Like image loading process, or an expensive image editing operation, or a complex calculation. You'll find this sort of recovery in any interactive data processing application.
