On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > I don't really understand why the system can't track the current top of the > stack and bottom of the heap, and if they're going to collide, halt the > process. That would still be kinda awful, in a sudden "your application > just died" kind of way, but it would be better than "your computer is now > owned by some hacker in Hong Kong, who is now renting it by the hour to > some spammer in Texas".
Seems kind of expensive for little benefit to have to make that check on every function call. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list