Feature or enhancement

Proposal:

In _PyLong_Negate there is a fast path for unique referenced longs. The slow path assumes the argument is a small int. We can add an assert for this condition, and remove the final decref (small ints are immortal).

Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

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Links to previous discussion of this feature:

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Linked PRs

• gh-143050: Remove redundant decref in _PyLong_Negate (gh-143051) #143051
• Revert "gh-143050: Remove redundant decref in _PyLong_Negate (gh-143051)" #145891
• gh-143050: correct PyLong_FromString() to use _PyLong_Negate() #145901