I have honestly not seen a more egregious case of "premature optimization". Who the fuck cares about 1% extra performance on something they are doing on the int

I have honestly not seen a more egregious case of "premature optimization". Who the fuck cares about 1% extra performance on something they are doing on the interactive shell? (And the answer wouldn't even change if the performance difference was 100%.) What an utterly useless thing to get pedantic about.