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I expect it's just a case of removing optimizations in order to get everything stable, then they can start work on new optimizations. I'm not a Python dev though, so elaboration would be cool ;-)



In this particular case, I think it's because all ints are now longs. Or rather, there's one int type and it behaves like a long.

I'm not a python dev either, but that's what I've gathered by lurking the python-dev and python-3000 mailing lists.


Just to clarify for non-Pythonistas, a "long" is an unlimited precision integer.




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