Tim Peters <t...@python.org> added the comment:
Issue 21922 lists several concerns, and best I know they all still apply. As a practical matter, I expect the vast bulk of core Python developers would reject a change that sped large int basic arithmetic by a factor of a billion if it slowed down basic arithmetic on native machine-size ints by even half a percent. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue43420> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com