On May 13, 11:59 am, Filip Štědronský <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Út, kvě 13, 2008 at 06:49:33 +0200, globalrev wrote: > > > if i do something like > > while 1: > > print "x" > > > will the program ever stop because it runs out of memory? > > No, there is no reason to run out of memory. This will simply > make an everlasting x-printer and there is no need to store > anything (except output buffers, terminal scrollback, etc., > but all of this is temporary and of limited size). In case of > adding elements to a list, the memory usage can, of course, > grow unlimitedly. On linux, if the process eats up too much > memory, it gets killed. I do not know about windows, but > they would probably crash with a BSOD or something of that > sort.
Usually, Windows just says "out of memory". -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
