为什么这个 python 语句卡住了？

Question

Have anyone ever experienced this statement? The following code looks work well, but it makes my laptop get stuck when the exponent reaches 9 or above.

ordered_tuple = tuple(range(10**9))

Every time I run this statement, my laptop slows down, got stuck taking up 100% of RAM usage. I searched for the reason why this happened, but there was no suitable answer.

Please help me understand why this code makes computers busy. Thanks in advance.

I tried with different exponent between [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]. 1-8 works fairly well as I expected.

ordered_tuple = tuple(range(10**1))
ordered_tuple = tuple(range(10**2))
ordered_tuple = tuple(range(10**3))
ordered_tuple = tuple(range(10**4))
ordered_tuple = tuple(range(10**5))
ordered_tuple = tuple(range(10**6))
ordered_tuple = tuple(range(10**7))
ordered_tuple = tuple(range(10**8))

whereas 9, 10 doesn't work.

Answer 1

10**9 is 10 times as big as 10**8 . 10**10 is 100 times as big as 10**8 . Likely your computer just does not have enough RAM to hold all these numbers.

PS: Not sure how long is a Python int, if it is 4-byte long, then 10**9 of them is 4 GB, but then 10**10 does not fit in 4-byte long int and needs more. If it is 8-byte long, then 10**9 is 8 GB and 10**10 is 80 GB.