[Python-Dev] Where the speed is lost! (was: 1.6 speed)

[Andrew M. Kuchling]

Christian Tismer writes:
>Mark Hammond pointed me to the int/long unification.
>Was this done *after* the unicode patches?

Before.  It seems unlikely they're the cause (they just add a 'if
(PyLong_Check(key)' branch to the slicing functions in abstract.c.
OTOH, if pystone really exercises sequence multiplication, maybe
they're related (but 10% worth?).

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