As you may recall, 3.6.2rc1 was released on 2017-06-17 with an expected release
date of 3017-06-30 for 3.6.2 final. As you also may recall, 3.6.2rc1 was
delayed a bit to address some security issues including updating our version of
libexpat. Shortly after 3.6.2rc1 was released, the expat proj
The current PyLong implementation represents arbitrary precision integers
in units of 15 or 30 bits. I presume the purpose is to avoid overflow in
addition , subtraction and multiplication. But compilers these days offer
intrinsics that allow one to access the overflow flag, and to obtain the
resul
