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Author pitrou
Recipients Aahz, aahz, mark.dickinson, pitrou, rhettinger, stutzbach
Date 2010-10-07.11:56:24
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This is an experimental patch to optimize some operations on small ints.
pystone is 5-10% faster, pybench 2-3% faster, and here are some relevant benchmarks from unladen swallow:

### nbody ###
Min: 0.345136 -> 0.317502: 1.09x faster
Avg: 0.346827 -> 0.319561: 1.09x faster
Significant (t=79.50)
Stddev: 0.00140 -> 0.00198: 1.4084x larger

### nqueens ###
Min: 0.339744 -> 0.313506: 1.08x faster
Avg: 0.342630 -> 0.315380: 1.09x faster
Significant (t=73.41)
Stddev: 0.00218 -> 0.00146: 1.4931x smaller


If the principle gets accepted, we could experiment with further optimizations such as dedicated opcodes for addition-with-int-constant, subscripting-with-int-constant, etc.
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2010-10-07 11:56:30pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, rhettinger, aahz, mark.dickinson, stutzbach, Aahz
2010-10-07 11:56:30pitrousetmessageid: <1286452590.11.0.255060275257.issue10044@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2010-10-07 11:56:27pitroulinkissue10044 messages
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