[issue3236] ints contructed from strings don't use the smallint constants

[Martin v. Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:

> The bug entry is just for pointing out a missed optimization
> opportunity. The first mentioned solution would already be an
> improvement, although of course it would even be better to skip the
> intermediary allocation altogether.

Can you propose an implementation strategy that doesn't create the
object, yet still avoids duplication of large chunks of code?

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