"Thomas Wouters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Neal and I wrote a few tests that exercise the Py_ssize_t code on 64bit > hardware: > > http://python.org/sf/1471578 > > Now that it's configurable and integrated with test_support and all, we > think it's time to include it in the normal testsuite. I'd really like it > to be in one of the next alphas, so people with an interest in > insane-sized objects (and insane memory in their hardware) can run the > tests, and (hopefully) add more. The tests that are there passed on AMD64 > with 16Gb of RAM (although the tests that took 48Gb, and thus a ton of > swap, took literally days to run,) but there are still many potential > tests to add. > > I still want to add some 'find memory requirements for bigmem tests' and > maybe 'run only bigmem tests' code to regrtest, and the bigmemtest > decorator should be moved to test_support so we can intersperse bigmem > tests with regular tests (say, in test_mmap.) But other than that, anyone > object to committing this to the trunk (not sandbox)?
Not at all, get it in pronto, I say! Cheers, mwh -- ... but I guess there are some things that are so gross you just have to forget, or it'll destroy something within you. perl is the first such thing I have known. -- Erik Naggum, comp.lang.lisp _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
