[TCLCORE] Re: Hintermayer's string allocation patch

[Mark H. <ma...@us...>]

John Ousterhout <ou...@aj...> wrote:
> So, if you run
> out of memory, you can't necessarily even execute scripts to free
> up memory.  Bottom line: better to panic cleanly with a nice simple
> error message.

At the VHLL conference, Steve Johnson mentioned that this behavior
(dying on memory allocation failure) was a reason that he would never
consider use Tcl in a mission-critical system.

After his talk, we chatted a bit, and I explained that a memory
error was just one of the failure modes we deal with when writing
this kind of system.  The mechanisms that are routinely put into
place for dealing with process death and node failure handle this
situation.

Mark.

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