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by NateDad 4813 days ago
This is terrible. It's your job to know how much memory you're using and not to use too much if you can help it. In many environments it's set at a very low value - desktop, mobile, client-side web apps, embedded. Even in an environment where RAM is cheap and you can scale it as you want... using too much RAM can cause paging issues, cache-miss issues, increase your server startup time, etc. All of these are real world issues that you, as a developer, are responsible for.