Hi Harald, On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Massa, Harald Armin <[email protected]> wrote: > outside of programming there is the concept of having a secret backup > ("nest egg"). Would'nt it be a solution to preallocate some bytes on > startup for really, really bad times?
It might help in general, but not in this case: this example causes and catches multiple MemoryErrors. If you unveil your secret backup at the first MemoryError, you gained nothing, because the crash occurs only at the ~25th MemoryError. A bientôt, Armin. _______________________________________________ pypy-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
