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Re: runtime committed to cvs

Hi -

> [...]
> > OOM handling should be left to the caller.
> 
> That gets ugly fast.  I thought it better to have global handling of OOM
> situations.  Really we only have two options, record an OOM situation
> was seen and either continue (with loss of data) or exit.
> [...]

Yes, but deciding between those alternatives, safely cleaning up
whatever the caller was doing, and especially contemplating something
as drastic as actually triggering a module unload, are all best left
to the layer above this one.

- FChE
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