[Python-Dev] Python on 64-bit AIX

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Greg Stein wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> >...
> > Has Python already been tested extensively on 64-bit machines ?
> 
> Back in 1996, Microsoft used Python 1.4 on Alpha machines for the
> Microsoft Merchant Server 1.0 product. The thing was seriously
> stress-tested and code coverage was applied to the Python source (not the
> C interpreter!). It ran quite well for us. Any 64-bit issues that we found
> were sent to Mark/Guido long ago.
> 
> In 1997, we shipped Site Server 2.0; the Commerce Server portion used
> Python to implement some COM objects. Again: that was well-tested on Alpha
> machines. In 1998, when Site Server 3.0 came out, the use of Python was
> quite minimal by that point, and the Alpha testing was also minimal. We
> used a Python 1.4 base for all three product releases. The Site Server
> products also had my "free threading patches" applied, and used a snapshot
> of the win32com stuff to implement the COM stuff.
> 
> Of course, we didn't use all of Python. The particular subset that we used
> worked great. So... Your Mileage May Vary.

What I'm particularly interested in is the socket module, which
is being used rather heavily for inter process communication.

Anyway, your comments do sound promising -- after all Python 1.5.x
has gone a long way since the release of Python 1.4.

Thanks for the Good News ;-),
-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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