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25762	Optimize numberformat.format	Jaap Roes		"`numberformat.format` is used a lot by Django and in most cases it's called with a number. Yet the current implementation is pretty much built for strings.

I've refactored the function to be up to 4x faster on my machine (and in the worst case it performs roughly the same). Attached is the benchmark script I've used.
"	Cleanup/optimization	new	Utilities	dev	Normal			Johannes Maron Sarah Boyce Ülgen Sarıkavak	Accepted	1	0	0	1	0	0