Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: As I understand, the new dict created on every call of function with keyword arguments. This slow down every such call about 0.1 µsec. This is about 10% of int('42', base=16). In the sum, some programs can slow down to a few percents.
Direct comparison of 3.2 and 3.3 is meaningless because of the influence of other factors (first of all PEP 393). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16465> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com