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Author	pitrou
Recipients	alexandre.vassalotti, loewis, pitrou, serhiy.storchaka
Date	2012-11-17.17:14:33
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Message-id	<1353172473.6.0.105063000869.issue12848@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> OTOH, I also think that it won't matter much in practive: if you try to > unpickle a string with more than 2GiB on a 32-bit system, chances are > really high that you run out of memory. Agreed. I think this issue is mostly about 64-bit systems, even though we may want to fix to apply to 32-bit systems as well, if it doesn't make things more complicated. And, yes, PEP 3154 should be finished, but it is currently stalled in issue 15642.

> OTOH, I also think that it won't matter much in practive: if you try to 
> unpickle a string with more than 2GiB on a 32-bit system, chances are
> really high that you run out of memory.

Agreed. I think this issue is mostly about 64-bit systems, even though we may want to fix to apply to 32-bit systems as well, if it doesn't make things more complicated.

And, yes, PEP 3154 should be finished, but it is currently stalled in issue 15642.

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