[issue21955] ceval.c: implement fast path for integers with a single digit

[Yury Selivanov]

Yury Selivanov added the comment:

>> Unless there are any objections, I'll commit fastint5.patch in a day or two.

> Please don't. I would like to have time to benchmark all these patches (there are now 9 patches attached to the issue :-)) and I would like to hear Serhiy's feedback on your latest patches.

Sure, I'd very appreciate a review of fastint5.

I can save you sometime on benchmarking -- it's really about fastint_alt vs fastint5.  The latter optimizes ALL ops on longs AND floats.  The former only optimizes some ops on longs.  So please be sure you're comparing oranges to oranges ;)

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