Performance of int/long in Python 3

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Mar 26 16:50:28 EDT 2013


On 26/03/2013 20:44, jmfauth wrote:
> On 26 mar, 20:03, Chris Angelico <ros... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 5:50 AM, jmfauth <wxjmfa... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 25 mar, 22:51, Chris Angelico <ros... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> The Python 3 merge of int and long has effectively penalized
>>>> small-number arithmetic by removing an optimization. As we've seen
>>>> from PEP 393 strings (jmf aside), there can be huge benefits from
>>>> having a single type with multiple representations internally ...
>>
>>> ------
>>
>>> A character is not an integer (short form).
>>
>> So?
>>
>> ChrisA
>
> A character is not an integer.
>
> jmf
>

But you are an idiot.

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