[Python-3000] C API for ints and strings

[Terry Reedy]

"Nicholas Bastin" <nick.bastin at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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| Yeah, my point was mostly an aside to anyone that might have
| questioned my earlier results of a 2.3x slowdown on integer-sized
| values because I used 1.  A quick switch to 200 netted the exact same
| results,

Currently, 200 is a small, cached int just as 1 is ([-10,256] or so is 
range).

| and a more extensive refactoring to get the same number of
| operations on a random set of larger numbers netted the same result as
| well

better test

tjr