it's a good point and something I'm still investigating. with the jvm you can set the maximum memory available to the instance. I once did all the fundamental

it's a good point and something I'm still investigating. with the jvm you can set the maximum memory available to the instance. I once did all the fundamental C and C++ type stuff, writing a memory manager and my own implementations of certain datastructures and algorithms, it doesn't seem unreasonable to write something that would enforce program limits in a transparent way.