[Python-Dev] Silly little benchmark

[Greg Ewing]

> """It looks like the new coercion rules have optimized number ops at the
> expense of string ops.

Is there still an intention to get rid of centralised
coercion and move it all into the relevant methods?

If that were done, wouldn't problems like this go
away (or at least turn into a different set of
problems)?

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