Unixes give us that. You have to fork the computation to have it contained in its own process, whose run-time, virtual memory limit, and stack depth you can control.

Doing it all in your VM/runtime, so you can bail the computation with an exception, is more challenging.

> Unixes give us that. You have to fork the computation to have it contained in its own process

Is forking a new process on each call to a recursive function practical?