16-bit Windows applications tried to deal with OOM

Posted Oct 15, 2020 16:19 UTC (Thu) by lysse (guest, #3190)
In reply to: 16-bit Windows applications tried to deal with OOM by roc
Parent article: Zig heading toward a self-hosting compiler

Better they break by themselves than freeze up the entire system while it tries to page every single executable VM page through a single 4K page of physical RAM, because the rest of it has been overcommitted to memory that just got written to.