> Are we playing word games here? No. A single process can have several allocators, switch between them, or use temporary low limits to enforce some kind of sa

> Are we playing word games here? No. A single process can have several allocators, switch between them, or use temporary low limits to enforce some kind of safety. None of that has any relation to your system running out of memory. You won't see any of that in a desktop or a server. In fact, I haven't seen people even discuss that in decades. But it exists, and there are real reasons to use it.