I ran it on my laptop without thinking just to see how bad it could be. I say "without thinking" because my laptop is a Mac and its VM is incredibly bad under any memory load. The whole machine started lagging. It took a couple of minutes to finally kill the process and get things sufficiently responsive to post this comment.<p>The same trick on my Linux box gives a NoMemoryError and doesn't eat the whole machine -- probably hit a ulimit or something. I didn't dig into exactly what happened. Of course, the Linux box would probably OOM-kill it right away if it had tried, so that's just fine, too.