64 bit python

[Fedor]

McKay Hyde wrote:

> I am interested in compiling a 64-bit version of python for use in my
> electromagnetic scattering code.  In particular, we use python for
> setting up the scattering geometries and for postprocessing and then
> call C++ code (through SWIG wrappers) to compute the scattered field.
> I would like to extend the code to make use of the shared memory on an
> IBM SP (AIX operating system) at my university (through OpenMP calls
> in the C++ code).  However, to address more than 2GB of memory, I need
> a 64-bit version of my code, including a 64-bit version of python.
> 
> Can anyone help?

I have python installed on a 64 bit AS/400 system. It is much slower than 
on a 32bit linux box. But it's sometimes useful because it's quite an 
excentric (somewhat useless) system. I didn't compile it myself. It was 
compiled by Per Gummedal (http://home.no.net/pgummeda/).

Fedor