Nick Sabalausky wrote:
I haven't looked at any of the other responses yet, but I'd have to say "sometimes". Clearly, getting an out of memory when trying to instantiate a trivial class is nonrecoverable (unless it's happening within a section of memory-intensive code that's allowed to fail, and the rest of the program does very little allocation), but getting an out of memory when trying to allocate a 1GB buffer for video processing is certainly recoverable.
There aren't going to be very many instances in code where one allocates 1Gb, so those can be handled as special cases.
