The author lost me right away.
>> I started with the most basic code I could think of: 1 + 2
OK, how did you fit that into 512/1024 bytes??? Did you try print(3 * * 1000)?
>> I started with the most basic code I could think of: 1 + 2
OK, how did you fit that into 512/1024 bytes??? Did you try print(3 * * 1000)?
That said, if I was building a small ugly toy Python implementation, I would probably also not implement long integers. Or the power operator. At least not in the first iteration.