Issue #1087418: Small performance boost for bitwise operations on longs.
Initial patch by Gregory Smith;  some tweaks added.
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 Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #1087418: Boost performance of bitwise operations for longs.
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 - Issue #1722344: threading._shutdown() is now called in Py_Finalize(), which
   fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
   interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.