[pypy-commit] pypy.org extradoc: Update for Windows.

arigo noreply at buildbot.pypy.org
Sat Sep 3 09:09:26 CEST 2011


Author: Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org>
Branch: extradoc
Changeset: r252:4acec1aeebfe
Date: 2011-09-03 09:09 +0200
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy.org/changeset/4acec1aeebfe/

Log:	Update for Windows.

diff --git a/download.html b/download.html
--- a/download.html
+++ b/download.html
@@ -150,7 +150,8 @@
 official release of PyPy (with the JIT).  If you really have to use CPython
 then note that we are talking about CPython 2.5-2.7 here, not CPython 3.x.</p>
 </li>
-<li><p class="first">If RAM usage is a problem, then you can (for now) tweak some parameters
+<li><p class="first">If RAM usage is a problem (or if you are on Windows, because win32's limit
+is 2 GB unless you hack a lot), then you can (for now) tweak some parameters
 via environment variables and command-line options.  The following command
 takes a bit more time, but finishes with only using 3.0 GB of RAM (on
 Linux 64-bit; probably not much more than 1.5 GB on 32-bit).  It should be
diff --git a/source/download.txt b/source/download.txt
--- a/source/download.txt
+++ b/source/download.txt
@@ -141,10 +141,11 @@
   official release of PyPy (with the JIT).  If you really have to use CPython
   then note that we are talking about CPython 2.5-2.7 here, not CPython 3.x.
 
-* If RAM usage is a problem, then you can (for now) tweak some parameters
+* If RAM usage is a problem (or if you are on Windows, because win32's limit
+  is 2 GB unless you hack a lot), then you can (for now) tweak some parameters
   via environment variables and command-line options.  The following command
   takes a bit more time, but finishes with only using 3.0 GB of RAM (on
-  Linux 64-bit; probably not much more than 1.5 GB on 32-bit).  It should be
+  Linux 64-bit; probably not much more than 1.6 GB on 32-bit).  It should be
   noted that it is less than with CPython. ::
 
     PYPY_GC_MAX_DELTA=200MB pypy --jit loop_longevity=300 ./translate.py -Ojit


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