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On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:06:47 -0700 (PDT), Ralph Heinkel
<ralph.heinkel@web.de> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:

> Hi,
> 
> when processing our mass spectrometry data we are running against the
> 2GB memory limit on our 32 bit machines. So we are planning to move to
> 64bit. Downloading and installing the 64bit version of Python for
> Windows is trivial, but how do we compile our own C extension? Visual C
> ++ 2008 express comes for free, but only compiles for 32 bit.
> 
	I believe the 64-bit compilers are available in the .NET SDK... You
then need to configure Express to find them.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9yb4317s%28v=vs.90%29.aspx
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