Issue #4258: Make it possible to use 30-bit digits for PyLongs:
- new configure option --enable-big-digits
- new structseq sys.int_info giving information about the internal format
By default, 30-bit digits are enabled on 64-bit machines but
disabled on 32-bit machines.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 90b6091..3e890f3 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,13 @@
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #4258: Make it possible to use base 2**30 instead of base
+ 2**15 for the internal representation of integers, for performance
+ reasons. Base 2**30 is enabled by default on 64-bit machines. Add
+ --enable-big-digits option to configure, which overrides the
+ default. Add sys.int_info structseq to provide information about
+ the internal format.
+
- Issue #4474: PyUnicode_FromWideChar now converts characters outside
the BMP to surrogate pairs, on systems with sizeof(wchar_t) == 4
and sizeof(Py_UNICODE) == 2.