Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> added the comment:

> The patch looks fine, but it looks a bit like benchmark chasing. Is the speed 
> of builtin sum() of a sequence of integers important enough to do this bit of 
> inlining?

Given that we already accepted essentially separate loops for the int, float 
and everything else cases, I think the answer is that it doesn't add much to 
the triplication.


> It may break if we change the internals of Py_Long, as Mark Shannon has been 
> wanting to do for a while

I would assume that such a structural change would come with suitable macros to 
unpack the special 0-2 digit integers. Those would then apply here, too. As it 
stands, there are already some modules distributed over the source tree that 
use direct digit access: ceval.c, _decimal.c, marshal.c. They are easy to find 
with grep and my PR just adds one more.

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