Performance of int/long in Python 3

[jmfauth]

On 2 avr, 16:03, Steven D'Aprano <steve
+comp.lang.pyt... at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:58:11 +0100, Steve Simmons wrote:
>
> I'm sure you didn't intend to be insulting, but some of us *have* taken
> JMF seriously, at least at first. His repeated overblown claims of how
> Python is destroying Unicode ...


Sorrry I never claimed this, I'm just seeing on how Python is becoming
less Unicode friendly.

>
> This feature is a *memory optimization*, not a speed optimization,

I totaly agree, and utf-8 is doing that with a great art. (see Neil
Hodgson
comment).
(Do not interpret this as if i'm saying "Python should use utf-8, as
I'have read).

jmf