[issue18813] Speed up slice object processing

[Stefan Behnel]

Stefan Behnel added the comment:

This tiny patch adds a fast-path to _PyEval_SliceIndex() that speeds up the slicing-heavy "fannkuch" benchmark by 8% for me.

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keywords: +patch
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file31421/faster_PyEval_SliceIndex.patch

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