[New-bugs-announce] [issue10044] small int optimization

[Antoine Pitrou]

New submission from Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr>:

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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files: smallints.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 118103
nosy: Aahz, aahz, mark.dickinson, pitrou, rhettinger, stutzbach
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: small int optimization
type: performance
versions: Python 3.2
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file19148/smallints.patch

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