Indeed. For most applications, an out-of-memory exception is typically one that's not necessary to handle and just let it bubble to the top, as there's not much

Indeed. For most applications, an out-of-memory exception is typically one that's not necessary to handle and just let it bubble to the top, as there's not much sensible you can do if you can't allocate a few hundred bytes for a new object. However I've written several pieces of code where allocating a large buffer could fail but where this failure was not crucial. So I handled the out-of-memory exception and just moved on.