On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 5:49:24 AM UTC-7, Benjamin Kaplan wrote: > 32-bit or 64-bit Python? A 32-bit program will crash once memory hits > 2GB. A 64-bit program will just keep consuming RAM until your computer > starts thrashing. The problem isn't your program using more RAM than > you have, just more RAM than you have free. Last time I faced a > situation like this, I just decided it was better to stick to the > 32-bit program and let it crash if it got too big.
On my 64-bit Linux system, I got a memory error in under a second, no thrashing. I have no swap. It's overrated. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
