Is Python suitable for a huge, enterprise size app?

[Dieter Maurer]

"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com> writes on Thu, 19 May 2005 09:54:15 +0200:
> ...
> and unless your operating system is totally braindead, and thus completely unfit
> to run huge enterprise size applications, that doesn't really matter much.  leaks
> are problematic, large peak memory use isn't.

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. While the OS probably is able to
reuse complete pages which are either unused for a longer
time or at least rarely accessed, it may become nasty when
almost every page contains a small amount of heavily used
memory.


Dieter