std.experimental.allocator.make should throw on out-of-memory

[Thiez via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 21 April 2016 at 04:07:52 UTC, Era Scarecrow wrote:
>  I'd say either you specify the amount of retries, or give some 
> amount that would be acceptable for some background program to 
> retry for. Say, 30 seconds.

Would that actually be more helpful than simply printing an OOM 
message and shutting down / crashing? Because if the limit is 30 
seconds *per allocation* then successfully allocating, say, 20 
individual objects might take anywhere between 0 seconds and 
almost (but not *quite*) 10 minutes. In the latter case the 
program is still making progress but for the user it would appear 
frozen.