Gerald Klix a écrit : > Did you consider the mmap library? > Perhaps it is possible to avoid to hold these big stings in memory. > BTW: AFAIK it is not possible in 32bit windows for an ordinary programm > to allocate more than 2 GB. That restriction comes from the jurrasic > MIPS-Processors, that reserved the upper 2 GB for the OS.
As a matter of fact, it's Windows which reserved the upper 2 GB. There a simple setting to change that value so that you have 3 GB available and another setting which can even go as far as 3.5 GB available per process. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
