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Author christian.heimes
Recipients Ramchandra Apte, abarnert, christian.heimes, georg.brandl, gvanrossum, josh.r, martin.panter, pitrou, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, terry.reedy, vstinner
Date 2016-01-08.12:57:08
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Serhiy’s bitarray idea has another benefit. Bit masking is only haft of the story. Since Python's int type has no length information, it not possible to handle shifting with overflow and rotation. A bit array can provide bit shifting ops like rshift, lshift, rotr and rotl.
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2016-01-08 12:57:09christian.heimessetrecipients: + christian.heimes, gvanrossum, georg.brandl, rhettinger, terry.reedy, pitrou, vstinner, Ramchandra Apte, martin.panter, serhiy.storchaka, abarnert, josh.r
2016-01-08 12:57:09christian.heimessetmessageid: <1452257829.01.0.626971219664.issue19251@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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