The Python link you mentioned provides some useful information on this error. Your program may have a memory leak or a bug or it may genuinely need more memory than you have available. It's hard to tell from your description.

To solve the former problem you'll need to do some debugging. If you're convinced your program genuinely needs more memory than you have, you'll need to find a more powerful machine. In particular, upgrading to a 64-bit OS (with a 64-bit Perl) will eliminate the 32-bit 4 GB address space limitation. Which version of OS X and Perl are you using and how much physical memory do you have on your machine? Though virtual memory on a 64-bit OS, if properly configured, should allow your program to allocate vast amounts of memory, it will run very slowly if you don't have sufficient physical memory.

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