> No more praying that your program isn't unceremoniously killed just for asking for more memory - all allocations are assumed fallible and failures must be handled explicitly.
But for operating systems with overcommit, including Linux, you won't ever see the act of allocation fail, which is the whole point. All the language-level ceremony in the world won't save you.
But for operating systems with overcommit, including Linux, you won't ever see the act of allocation fail, which is the whole point. All the language-level ceremony in the world won't save you.