Not making a jab at what you are saying, but to me “running out of virtual memory” has always sounded like a crazy thing, like running out of address space. Sur

Not making a jab at what you are saying, but to me “running out of virtual memory” has always sounded like a crazy thing, like running out of address space. Sure, given enough disk space, your program might get (quite) a bit slower, but it should still chug along just fine. Yet, running out of virtual memory is indeed still a thing, especially in Windows (a workaround being using memory-mapped files).