Performance of int/long in Python 3

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 7:44 AM, jmfauth <wxjmfauth at gmail.com> 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.

Yes, I heard you the first time. And I repeat: A needle pulling thread?

You have not made any actual, uhh, _point_.

ChrisA