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On 11-Jun-06, at 4:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On the other hand, resource exhaustion nowadays can generally be prevented at little cost: add a few gigabytes of RAM, add a few 500GB disks for swap or file storage.
Generally, but not in many cases. I do entertainment software. Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo set the machine spec, and that's what you have to work with. When working on the new breed of highly dynamic environments it's becoming difficult to fall back to the traditional solution of a fixed-size asset base. Memory shortages in particular are acute and need to be dealt with on an excessively regular basis, and usually in ways that affect the fundamental architecture of the product. Sadly, methodologies for exception condition handling are just poor and obscenely difficult to test.
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