Gregory P. Smith added the comment: I wouldn't make an efficiency argument against it without trying it and showing reproducible degradation in the hg.python.org/benchmarks suite.
On Sun, Apr 19, 2015, 10:31 PM Serhiy Storchaka <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > > Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: > > Supporting keyword arguments has performance loss. For fast builtins it > make be significant. We should defer adding keyword arguments support until > more efficient parsing will implemented. Note that it is easier to > implement efficient argument parsing for functions with positional-only > arguments (see for example issue23867). > > ---------- > nosy: +serhiy.storchaka > > _______________________________________ > Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> > <http://bugs.python.org/issue8706> > _______________________________________ > ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8706> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com