Gregory Smith added the comment:
Actually, my view for 3.x is this: I do agree hugely with the 'top
level' decision to only have one type that handles everything, and
obviously the easiest way to get there is to just use the existing long
type. However, though the rad-2^15 implementat
Gregory Smith added the comment:
Antoine, "most uses of it are for small ints (< 2**32 or 2**64), ",
that's my point exactly, the current long type is quite slow for those
cases because of sign-magnitude implementation.
I don't see a problem with sign-magnitude for ol
