looking for speed-up ideas

[Aahz]

In article <b1p4nk$qs7$1 at slb9.atl.mindspring.net>,
Andrew Dalke  <dalke at dalkescientific.com> wrote:
>
>   - You do
>       try / int() / except Value Error / long()
>      when I always do long().  It could be that longs are much more
>      expensive than ints.  Also, in newer pythons the int converts
>      to a long as needed so this is no longer needed.

Note that autoconversion is currently slow because it takes a trip
through the warnings module.
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