Dec. 3, 2003
11:18 a.m.
Guido van Rossum wrote:
I don't particularly like either approach, because the 'long' type is an implementation detail over which the user has no control (this is a change of heart since Python's original design!). I guess that means I have to work harder and make the single int type support both representations. I'm sure it can be done.
Isn't the 'long' format the more general representation, with the 'int' format then being a performance hack to take advantage of the speed of C integer arithmetic? I'm just wondering if a different way of thinking about it might help with figuring out how to handle a combined implementation. Cheers, Nick.