Immediate SmallIntegers

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We could do something like the VM does. Instead of putting a reference to a 
SamllInteger, we directly encode the SmallInteger in the reference. This make 
dirty a little the code and add some IFs maybe....but we should check because 
the performance can be much better.

It is worth it to give it a try.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by marianopeck on 19 Jun 2011 at 9:01

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type->enhancement

Original comment by tinchod...@gmail.com on 20 Jun 2011 at 3:39

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I think the performance impact of this change could be huge. It would be really 
really nice to do it ;)

Original comment by marianopeck on 2 Sep 2011 at 9:21

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[tinchodias]

This sounds good

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