Hi, Some server-side Python applications are limited by memory usage (hint: Zope), because Python effective uses processes and not threads for multiprocessing. This is especially true for 64-bit platforms, since Python programs are all about references and objects and 64-bit effectively doubles reference size.
Some benchmarks 32-bit vs. 64-bit were discussed here: http://jstahl.org/archives/2010/01/2...ks-python-2-6/ How one could create 32-bit Python run-time enviroment, preferable virtualenv, on 64-bit Linux (VPS), reducing memory usage? This environment could actually beat 64-bit in performance, due to better memory cache use. I assume this involves having lib32 libs and compiling Python with some magical switches. Cheers, Mikko -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
