Performance of int/long in Python 3

[Neil Hodgson]

rusi wrote:
> ...
>> a 'micro-benchmark' - I'd just like to avoid adding email access to get
>> this over the threshold.
>
> What does that last statement mean?

    Its a reference to a comment by Jamie Zawinski (relatively famous 
developer of Netscape Navigator and other things):

    "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those 
programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."

    One of the games played in bug reporting and avoidance is to deny 
that the report is a real problem. A short script is dismissed as 
unrepresentative of actual programs. Once it can read email though, it 
has to be a real program.

    Neil