I'm unable to use pystone nor pybench to compare all integers patches.
So I wrote my own tool: bench_int.py. Don't use to compare different
computers or Python versions, it's just useful to test if a patch is
faster or slower.
Example (still the 64 bits CPU@2.5 GHz):
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original : 896.5 ms
+ macros : 891.0 ms (+0.6%)
++ optimize : 884.3 ms (+1.4%)
+++ shift : 880.8 ms (+1.7%)
GMP : 700.9 ms (+22%)
30 bits : 659.9 ms (+26%)
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Result: my optimizations are useless, whereas mark's patch (#4258) is
26% faster! My GMP patch is only 22% faster (and so slower than the 30
bits patch). The GMP hack would only be useful for huge value whereas
my benchmark tool use mostly small values (the biggest is near
2**200).
I use it with "sync && ./python -OO bench_int.py", run the command 2
or 3 times, and keep the smallest value.