Hi Joshua, Am 24.11.2008 um 03:21 schrieb Joshua Buysse: >>> Am 21.11.2008 um 15:38 schrieb Philip Brown: >>>> if not, then this might be a good reason to deviate from our usual >>>> practice of "ship 64bit with 32bit package", and make a separate >>>> "python64" package. >>> >>> This goes equally well for Perl. >> >> *gag* *choke*... 64bit perl??? as if perl wasnt bloated >> enough?!!! :-} >> >> Actually, i'm not exactly sure why someone would want 64bit python >> either. >> could someone enlighten us? > > Sadly, I had to build a 64-bit python internally a while back. > Researchers using bioinformatics toolkits (for purposes other than > what was intended, but cool idea). The code was written in Python, > using FEBRL (http://datamining.anu.edu.au/projects/linkage.html). > They were linking individual census records between different years, > and the datafiles are in the tens or hundreds of gigs. Damn thing > needed to load the entire set into memory, and even using MPI, it > was a beast. > > Researchers do use scripting languages with huge data sets, > especially in the biosciences.
IIRC Python is currently orphaned. As you seem to be quite qualified: do you like to take over Python and make a 64 bit version? I guess we will need some discussion on how to handle this in general for Python/Perl/OpenLDAP. Best regards -- Dago _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers
