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
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