Nick Coghlan wrote:
> numpy would be a big dependency to bring in just to 
> get more efficient bit-oriented operations on a byte sequence

Random thought - if long integers were to use byte
sequences internally to hold their data, it might
be possible to get this more or less for free in
terms of code size.

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