On Wednesday, June 29, 2016 at 5:26:46 PM UTC+12, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > BUT in Python 3, the distinction between int and long is gone by dropping > int and renaming long as "int". So all Python ints are BIGNUMs. I don’t understand what the problem is with this. Is there supposed to be some issue with performance? Because I can’t see it.