Performance of int/long in Python 3

[rusi]

On Apr 3, 8:31 am, Neil Hodgson <nhodg... at iinet.net.au> wrote:

>     Sorting a million string list (all the file paths on a particular
> computer) went from 0.4 seconds with Python 3.2 to 0.78 with 3.3 so
> we're out of the 'not noticeable by humans' range. Perhaps this is still
> a 'micro-benchmark' - I'd just like to avoid adding email access to get
> this over the threshold.

What does that last statement mean?