Re: out-of-memory [was Re: glib CVS ?]

[Johannes Stezenbach <js convergence de>]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 09:47:03AM -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> If you want reliable out-of-memory handling, you want a 
> much simpler and less powerful toolkit. 
...
>    On embedded systems, the tradeoff here may be different.  GLib is
>    not really suitable for deeply embedded devices and certainly not
>    for critical real-time situations.
...
> With the GLib-2.0 changes we've tried to address this issue 
> as much as possible without causing ourselves nightmares.

Thanks for clarifying that.

If someone has insight into how other toolkits compare
to GLib/Gtk+ in regards to OOM handling, please let us know.


Regards,
Johannes