Hi, I read some nodes on this topic such as Limits in Perl, but they didnīt quite answer my present questions. I need to know present limits in perls interna (perlguts) - mainly for the memory management.
E.g.
Is the length of a scalar on a 32bit machine limited to 4GB?
What secure size can a Hash have until the pointers (which are 32bit I guess) go wild?
Iīm asking this, because it actually is possible to have under Linux - on 32bit Hardware - up to 64GB Ram. Therefore the question is whether one can go for this HW-solution (actually faster and cheaper) or one has to buy 64bit big iron (big money).
Any clarification about how perl handles this greatly appreciated.

Bye
 PetaMem

In reply to Internal Perl Limits? - the real ones by PetaMem

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