Christophe wrote: > > Did you consider the mmap library? > > Perhaps it is possible to avoid to hold these big stings in memory. > > BTW: AFAIK it is not possible in 32bit windows for an ordinary programm > > to allocate more than 2 GB. That restriction comes from the jurrasic > > MIPS-Processors, that reserved the upper 2 GB for the OS. > > As a matter of fact, it's Windows which reserved the upper 2 GB. There a > simple setting to change that value so that you have 3 GB available and > another setting which can even go as far as 3.5 GB available per process.
random raymond chen link: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/08/05/208908.aspx </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
