Performance of int/long in Python 3

[Neil Hodgson]

Roy Smith:

> On the other hand, how long did it take you to do the directory tree
> walk required to find those million paths?  I'll bet a long longer than
> 0.78 seconds, so this gets lost in the noise.

    About 2 minutes. But that's just getting an example data set. Other 
data sets may be loaded more quickly from databases or files or be 
created by processing. Reading the example data from a file takes around 
the same time as sorting.

    Neil