Is Python suitable for a huge, enterprise size app?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Dieter Maurer wrote:

> Could you elaborate a bit?
>
> Large peak memory use means that the application got a large
> address space. What garantees that the residual memory use
> (after the peak) is compact and not evenly spread across
> the address space.

nothing guarantees that, of course.  but I've never seen that
happen. and I'm basing my comments on observed behaviour in
real systems, not on theoretical worst-case scenarios.  every
time I've seen serious fragmentation, it's been related to leaks,
not peak memory usage.

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