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20 Mar
2012
20 Mar
'12
12:59 p.m.
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 16:57 +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
Older TeX engines had hard memory limit, so in case of such "syntactical" errors the engine would consume all its allocated memory and die (with a misleading error message), LuaTeX dynamically allocates memory (for good reasons) so it won't stop before consuming all your available memory, its the responsibility of an operating system to prevent such a faulty application from taking the whole system down.
I'd be very interested in seeing the operating system memory manager's algorithm that could do such a remarkable thing. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com