[HN Gopher] Python behind the scenes #8: how Python integers work
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       Python behind the scenes #8: how Python integers work
        
       Author : rbanffy
       Score  : 40 points
       Date   : 2021-02-09 20:14 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | cma wrote:
       | Micropython does much more efficient tagged integers (making
       | unaligned pointers represent the small integers, once out of
       | range can be replaced with an aligned pointer to a bigint).
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       | I think the only reason not to have that is maintaining c-python
       | compatibility, but it would have been nice if they could have
       | moved to it for the 3.0 break.
        
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