On 5/25/06, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If you really need this for speed, I recommend you make it a custom extension.
The custom extension is a good idea, and what we do now. But now
that the long algorithm is so fast, it would be nice to expose
it at least at the C level to use a
We've been talking this week about ideas for speeding up the parsing of Longs coming out of files or network. The use case is having a large string with embeded Long's and parsing them to real longs. One approach would be to use a simple slice:
long(mystring[x:y]) an expensive operation in a tigh
