Is "Out of Memory" a recoverable error?

[Walter Bright]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> I haven't looked at any of the other responses yet, but I'd have to say 
> "sometimes". Clearly, getting an out of memory when trying to instantiate a 
> trivial class is nonrecoverable (unless it's happening within a section of 
> memory-intensive code that's allowed to fail, and the rest of the program 
> does very little allocation), but getting an out of memory when trying to 
> allocate a 1GB buffer for video processing is certainly recoverable. 

There aren't going to be very many instances in code where one allocates 
1Gb, so those can be handled as special cases.