Is "Out of Memory" a recoverable error?

[BCS]

Reply to Russell,

> Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>> I asked this over on stackoverflow.com to see what people using other
>> languages have to say, as well as the D community. The reason I ask
>> is to see if memory allocation can be allowed in functions marked
>> "nothrow".
>> 
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/333736/is-out-of-memory-a-recovera
>> ble-error
>> 
> It seems that D has (or rather, can have) a trivial solution to this
> problem.  Allow programs to register with the GC when they have memory
> which can be easily freed (caches and such).  Then you can make "out
> of memory" a non-recoverable error, since it only hits when we fail to
> recover enough.
> 
>

Some sort of higher level of granularity would be nice, mostly an ordering 
hint re the different stages.

> 
> Seems to me that with this mechanism in place, we can treat
> out-of-memory as an unrecoverable error.
> 
> Thoughts?

vote += 0.5; // nice idea, not sure it would help *me* in any way though.