Difference between 32 bit and 64 bit Python

David Cournapeau cournape at gmail.com
Wed Mar 4 08:23:17 EST 2009


On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:13 PM, srinivasan srinivas
<sri_annauni at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I would like to know more about the advantages of 64-bit python.

It runs on 64 bits OS, for once, which generally means the python
process can address more than the few Gb possible under a 32 bits
platform. If you need to deal with big data, this is useful (for
example, with 64 bits python, you can use numpy arrays which take more
4 Gb of memory - it depends on the exact configuration, but most 32
bits OS cannot give more than 2 or 3 Gb to one process).

David



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