Performance of int/long in Python 3

[jmfauth]

On 25 mar, 22:51, Chris Angelico <ros... at gmail.com> wrote:
> The Python 3 merge of int and long has effectively penalized
> small-number arithmetic by removing an optimization. As we've seen
> from PEP 393 strings (jmf aside), there can be huge benefits from
> having a single type with multiple representations internally ...

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A character is not an integer (short form).

jmf