27 Dec
2007
27 Dec
'07
10:22 a.m.
Hi Neil, On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 09:14:04AM -0700, Neil Toronto wrote:
whether 64 bits is necessary. It takes an hour of concerted effort - nothing but "module.d = 1; del module.d" for an hour straight - to overflow a 32-bit version number. Is anybody going to actually get close to doing that in a global namespace?
Of course not. And 640k is as much memory as anyone could reasonably need ...
Point taken - forget I asked.
How much time does it take if the loop is in a C extension module, e.g. like the following? while (1) { PyDict_SetItem(d, k, v); PyDict_DelItem(d, k); } How much time would it take the same loop to overflow even the 64-bit version number? And how much will *this* take in ten year's time? A bientot, Armin