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That is a ball we set in motion when we introduced virtual memory, particularly with overcommit.
Give a developer the option to write calls to malloc that never fail, and boy will they make use of that! Performance be damned.
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That is a ball we set in motion when we introduced virtual memory, particularly with overcommit.
Give a developer the option to write calls to malloc that never fail, and boy will they make use of that! Performance be damned.