Hi Steven, On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 11:29:56AM +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >>>> import sys > >>>> print sys.maxint > > 9223372036854775807 > > > > the couter could be 9223372036854775807? > > > > And after? :) > > Suppose you somehow managed to create 9223372036854775807 threads. If your > computer has 16 GB of RAM available, that means that at most each thread > can use:
so, thanks for your and others answers - this was just a _theoretical_ question. What is the practice - that's an another thread. :) I just simply interested about this theory, not more. I don't care with-how-many-memories-needs-and-how-many-years-to-overflow that counter, but many people calculates that - thanks :) Cheers, a. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list