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Wed Feb 11 13:34:16 CET 2009 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-February/086005.html

Martin v. Löwis <martin <at> v.loewis.de> writes:
> - efficient array indexing: they give shift-and-index back to
>   Thumb mode, for a shift by 2, allowing to index arrays with
>   4-byte elements in a single instruction (rather than requiring
>   a separate multipy-by-four). Again useful for JIT of array
>   access instructions, not applicable to Python - although it
>   would be nice if the C compiler knew how to emit that.

This could be used in PyTuple_GetItem and PyList_GetItem, no?
(assuming Thumb has 4-byte pointers)

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