STINNER Victor added the comment:
call_stack-2.patch: A little bit more complete patch, it adds a tp_call_stack
field to PyTypeObject an use it in _PyObject_CallStack().
Updated microbenchmark on Python 3.6, best of 3 runs:
./python -m timeit -r 11 -s "from collections import namedtuple as n; a =
n('n', 'a b c')(1, 2, 3)" -- "a.a; a.a; a.a; a.a; a.a; a.a; a.a; a.a; a.a; a.a;
a.a; a.a; a.a; a.a; a.a; a.a; a.a; a.a; a.a"
* Python 3.6 unpatched: 0.968 usec
* call_stack.patch: 1.27 usec
* Python 3.6 with property_descr_get() of Python 3.4: 1.32 usec
* call_stack-2.patch: 0.664 usec
call_stack-2.patch makes this micro-benchmark 31% faster, not bad! It also
makes calls to C functions almost 2x as fast if you replace current unoptimized
calls with _PyObject_CallStack()!!
IHMO we should continue to experiment, making function calls 2x faster is worth
it ;-)
Serhiy: "See also issue23507. May be your function help to optimize filter(),
map(), sorted()?"
IMHO the API is generic enough to be usable in a lot of cases.
Serhiy: "Is there any use of this function with keyword arguments?"
Calling functions with keywords is probably the least common case for function
calls in C code. But I would like to provide a fast function to call with
keywords. Maybe we need two functions just to make the API cleaner? The
difference would just be that "int k" would be omitted?
I proposed an API (PyObject **stack, int na, int nk) based on the current code
in Python/ceval.c. I'm not sure that it's the best API ever :-)
In fact, there is already PyObject_CallFunctionObjArgs() which can be modified
to reuse internally _PyObject_CallStack(), and its API is maybe more convenient
than my proposed API.
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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file42550/call_stack-2.patch
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