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Chuck,

Caldarale, Charles R wrote:
>> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:chris@(protected)]
>> Subject: Re: Recovery from OutOfMemoryError?
>>
>> Are you suggesting that all methods should be written as a
>> loops around attempts to do real work, catching OOME and
>> re-trying until the work gets done?
>
> Sort of, but not at the method level - something on a larger scale.
> Think recoverable database operations, where nothing is permanently
> stored until a commit happens. And perpetual retry isn't needed - just
> a failure return to the caller.

I generally think of this as "failure return" as simply allowing the
exception to propagate.

- -chris

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