Simon Strobl wrote:
Well, as I was using Python, I did not expect to have to care about the language's internal affairs that much. I thought I could simply do always the same no matter how large my files get. In other words, I thought Python was really scalable.
Python the language is indefinitely scalable. Finite implementations are not. CPython is a C program compiled to a system executable. Most OSes run executables with a fairly limited call stack space.
CPython programs are, when possible, cached as .pyc files. The existence and format of .pyc's is an internal affair of the CPython implementation. They are most definitely not a language requirement or language feature.
Have you tried feeding multigigabytes source code files to other compilers? Most, if not all, could be broken by the 'right' big-enough code.
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