From 418a1ef0895e826c65d4113be5d86891c199e15d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:30:06 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] RFE #1436243: make integers in [0..256] preallocated.

---
 Lib/test/test_types.py | 4 ++++
 Objects/intobject.c    | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_types.py b/Lib/test/test_types.py
index 4abc7caafb3..c575c0c9317 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_types.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_types.py
@@ -90,6 +90,10 @@ else: raise TestFailed, 'long() does not round properly'
 if float(1) == 1.0 and float(-1) == -1.0 and float(0) == 0.0: pass
 else: raise TestFailed, 'float() does not work properly'
 print '6.4.1 32-bit integers'
+# Ensure the first 256 integers are shared
+a = 256
+b = 128*2
+if a is not b: raise TestFailed, '256 is not shared'
 if 12 + 24 != 36: raise TestFailed, 'int op'
 if 12 + (-24) != -12: raise TestFailed, 'int op'
 if (-12) + 24 != 12: raise TestFailed, 'int op'
diff --git a/Objects/intobject.c b/Objects/intobject.c
index 232b2d234a5..352210c8190 100644
--- a/Objects/intobject.c
+++ b/Objects/intobject.c
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ fill_free_list(void)
 }
 
 #ifndef NSMALLPOSINTS
-#define NSMALLPOSINTS		100
+#define NSMALLPOSINTS		257
 #endif
 #ifndef NSMALLNEGINTS
 #define NSMALLNEGINTS		5