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On 9-Jun-06, at 5:59 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
however, i have yet to see a small allocation fail without the system being pretty broken. and my conclusion is that preemtive strikes against failures that should not happen on a sane system may cause more harm than good.
I have seen allocations that are *supposed* to be small fail - some of the most precious results are in the middle of runs of code that's far from what you or I would call production-ready. There's plenty of cases of relatively fragile software doing smart things with partial results when a programmer error occurs; when partial runs have value you save the result...
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