Performance of int/long in Python 3

[rusi]

On Apr 3, 9:03 am, Neil Hodgson <nhodg... at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> 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):

And Xemacs (which is famous in the free sw world for other things!)

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

:-) Ok got it