Ints and performance (was Re: PEP0238 lament)

[Guido van Rossum]

Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> writes:

> That is my point, though.  These integer optimizations are, as we 
> agree, a clear win.  Are these optimizations in danger of being impacted
> as a result of this unification, or will we still be able to count 
> on integer performance being significantly better than that of
> less frequently used types.

What Tim was trying to say was that under the covers we will still use
different representations so this kind of optimization will still be
possible.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)