[ZODB-Dev] 32-bit vs 64-bit - RelStorage on MySQL

[Chris Withers]

On 18/11/2010 16:48, Hanno Schlichting wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Leonardo Santagada<santagada at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Chris Withers<chris at simplistix.co.uk>  wrote:
>>> On 18/11/2010 15:39, Marius Gedminas wrote:
>>>> About the only noticeable difference -- other than the obvious memory
>>>> growth
>>>
>>> What obvious memory growth?
>>
>> The one from pointers and anything related to memory going from 32bits
>> to 64bits in size. Py_objects get fatter because of that.
>
> For Zope based applications I've generally seen 50% to 100% memory
> growth when moving to 64bit. That's why we stick to 32bit for a number
> of memory hungry applications (*wink* Plone).

Right, but, even if the MySQL server is 64-bit, if the clients are 
32-bit, they won't have this problem, will they?

Chris

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