I had suspected that pypeformance just don't have enough workload for non-small int.
For example, spectral_norm is integer heavy + some float warkload. But bm_spectral_norm uses `DEFAULT_N = 130`. So most integers are fit into smallint cache.
On the othar hand, spectral_norm in the benchmarkgame uses N=5500.
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/program/spectralnorm-python3-8.html
So I ran the benchmark on my machine:
master:
real 1m24.647s
user 5m37.515s
patched:
real 1m19.033s
user 5m14.682s
master+increased small int from [-5, 256] to [-9, 1024]
real 1m23.742s
user 5m33.569s
314.682/337.515 = 0.9323496733478512. So ther is only 7% speedup even when N=5500.
After all, I think it is doubtful. Let's stop this idea until situation is changed.