Re: Further adventures in the land of 64-bit linux

On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 05:52:22PM -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > Next one to "fail" is test_longexp, which bloats the interpreter
> > massively. Simplified, it looks like this:
> > 
> > >>> l = eval ("[" + "2," * 65580 + "]")
> 
> Could it be that the parse tree uses twice the memory on a 64-bit
> machine, and that that is simply too much?  Give it a try with smaller
> values of 65580. (:-)

Alright. Is this the largest test? If so, it defines the amount of
memory a machine needs to complete the tests. We've been talking about
adding memory to those machines (asmodean and moghedian), that should
solve the problem.

Is there any point to having such a large number?
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