Neal and I wrote a few tests that exercise the Py_ssize_t code on 64bit hardware:
http://python.org/sf/1471578
Now that it's configurable and integrated with test_support and all, we think it's time to include it in the normal testsuite. I'd really like it to be in one of the next alphas, so people with an interest in insane-sized objects (and insane memory in their hardware) can run the tests, and (hopefully) add more. The tests that are there passed on AMD64 with 16Gb of RAM (although the tests that took 48Gb, and thus a ton of swap, took literally days to run,) but there are still many potential tests to add.
I still want to add some 'find memory requirements for bigmem tests' and maybe 'run only bigmem tests' code to regrtest, and the bigmemtest decorator should be moved to test_support so we can intersperse bigmem tests with regular tests (say, in test_mmap.) But other than that, anyone object to committing this to the trunk (not sandbox)? The tests *are* run by default, but only with very small limits (so they'll use less memory than most of the tests), to make sure the tests do function.
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