Background: I'm going to be processing some raw transaction logs that are 30G in size. As part of this processing I may need to create some very large dictionary structures. I will be running my scripts on a version of Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition that supports 16G of RAM. Yes, I could use a database in place of dictionaries, but I'm looking for maximum performance.
The following page lists two 64 bit versions of Python for Windows: http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5.2/ For Win64-Itanium users: python-2.5.2.ia64.msi For Win64-AMD64 users: python-2.5.2.amd64.msi 1. It looks like the 64 bit versions of Python for Windows are CPU vendor specific, eg. it doesn't look like there's a single, universal executable for Windows 64 bit platforms. Is this true? 2. Are there limitations to the using the 64 bit versions of Python? I seem to remember reading that many 3rd party modules (especially Windows OS specific modules) may not be compatible with the 64 bit versions of Python for Windows. 3. If I wanted to run a 64 bit version of Python under Linux, would I need to recompile from source on 64 bit version of Linux or do 64 bit versions of Linux automatically ship with 64 bit versions of Python? (Any recommendations on a flavor of 64 bit of Linux for the Intel architecture would be appreciated) 4. Is there a stable version of IronPython compiled under a 64 bit version of .NET? Anyone have experience with such a beast? Thank you, Malcolm -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
