[Python-3000] long/int unification (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Fri Aug 25 07:50:58 CEST 2006

martin at v.loewis.de wrote:

I'm not sure whether this performance change is acceptable; at this point, I'm running out of ideas how to further improve the performance.

without really digging into the patch, is it perhaps time to switch to unboxed integers for the CPython interpreter ?

(support for implementation subtypes could also be nice; I agree that it would be nice if we had only one visible integer type, but I don't really see why the implementation has to restricted to one type only. this applies to strings too, of course).

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