64 bit Python

[Ivan Voras]

Mathias Waack wrote:
> amounts of data. I figured out that a 32 bit application on HP-UX
> cannot address more than 1 GB of memory. In fact (I think due to the
> overhead of memory management done by python) a python application
> cannot use much more than 500 MB of "real" data. For this reason

I don't thik this is likely. Don't know about HP-UX but on some 
platforms, FreeBSD for example, there is a soft memory-cap for 
applications. By default, a single application on FreeBSD cannot use 
more than 512MB of memory, period. The limit can be modified by root 
(probably involves rebooting).