[Twisted-Python] Why is Int23StringReceiver so slow?

[Itamar Shtull-Trauring]

On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 11:58 -0700, Brian Granger wrote:

> Is the Int32StringReceiver really that slow?  Why?  What am I  
> missing?  Are there hidden assumptions that I am missing?  Can it be  
> made faster?

There were some optimizations made to LineReceiver that weren't made to
Int32StringReceiver, so that may be it.