Performance of int/long in Python 3

[Neil Hodgson]

    Reran the programs taking a bit more care with the encoding of the 
file. This had no effect on the speeds. There are only a small amount of 
paths that don't fit into ASCII:

ASCII 1076101
Latin1 218
BMP 113
Astral 0

# encoding:utf-8
import codecs, os, time
from os.path import join, getsize
with codecs.open("filelist.txt", "r", "utf-8") as f:
     paths = f.read().split("\n")
bucket = [0,0,0,0]
for p in paths:
     b = 0
     maxChar = max([ord(ch) for ch in p])
     if maxChar >= 65536:
         b = 3
     elif maxChar >= 256:
         b = 2
     elif maxChar >= 128:
         b = 1
     bucket[b] = bucket[b] + 1
print("ASCII", bucket[0])
print("Latin1", bucket[1])
print("BMP", bucket[2])
print("Astral", bucket[3])

    Neil