Monitor Process Memory

[Mikael Pettersson]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 1:04 PM Vance Shipley <vances@REDACTED> wrote:
>
> I have a function in user_default which I would like to protect
> against naive users consuming all the memory.  It runs a loop building
> an accumulator which is a list of records.
>
> I could just use a guard of length(Acc) < ?MAXLEN

Others have already given alternative solutions. I would just like to
warn that the suggestion above if implemented literally would cause
overheads quadratic on the length of Acc. You can avoid that by
maintaining the length yourself.