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.