The result of SF patch #1471578: big-memory tests for strings, lists and
tuples. Lots to be added, still, but this will give big-memory people
something to play with in 2.5 alpha 2, and hopefully get more people to
write these tests.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 84d6c31..26a3f87 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -171,6 +171,11 @@
it separately and by hand. It also wasn't cleaning up its changes to
the current Decimal context.
+- regrtest.py now has a -M option to run tests that test the new limits of
+ containers, on 64-bit architectures. Running these tests is only sensible
+ on 64-bit machines with more than two gigabytes of memory. The argument
+ passed is the maximum amount of memory for the tests to use.
+
Tools
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