[issue3418] heavy resource usage with string functions

[Martin v. Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:

As for the possibility of rejecting the request: Python should
absolutely not do so. If the user/applications wants to compute the
result, and the system has enough virtual memory, then Python should
provide the result.

If you want to limit how much memory Python can consume, use the
operating system's resource management functions (such as ulimit).

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nosy: +loewis

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