Raymond Hettinger added the comment: > Proposed patch renames METH_FASTCALL to METH_FASTCALL|METH_KEYWORDS > and makes bare METH_FASTCALL be used for functions with > positional-only parameters. This eliminates small cost that > these functions pay for handling empty keywords: calling > _PyStack_UnpackDict() and _PyArg_NoStackKeywords(), > passing kwnames. This also can slightly reduce stack > consumption.
+1 for all the reasons listed. These are very reasonable specializations. The empty keyword checks are really irritating for fine-grained functions. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue29464> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
