Re: What is the difference between 32 and 64 bit Python on Windows 7 64 bit?

[Sturla Molden]

On 12/05/14 15:42, Sturla Molden wrote:

- A one-dimensional NumPy array with dtype np.float64 can keep 16 GB of
data before a 32 bit index is too small and Python starts to use long. A
two-dimensional NumPy array with dtype np.float64 can keep 256 GB of
data before a 32 bit index is too small.

Oops, the latter should be 34359738336 GB (that is, 32767 pentabytes) :)

Sturla





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