Performance of int/long in Python 3

[Steve Simmons]

On 02/04/2013 15:12, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> I've already raised an issue about performance and Neil Hodgson has 
> raised a new one. 
Recognised in a separate post
> To balance this out perhaps we should have counter issues asking for 
> the amount of memory being used to be increased to old levels and the 
> earlier buggier behaviour of Python to be reintroduced? Swings and 
> roundabouts?
I don't think I came anywhere near suggesting that we should regress 
correct functionality or memory usage improvements.  I just don't 
believe that we can't have good performance alongside it.

Steve S