STINNER Victor <vstin...@redhat.com> added the comment:
$ ./python -m timeit "format('abc')" Unpatched: 5000000 loops, best of 5: 65 nsec per loop Patched: 5000000 loops, best of 5: 42.4 nsec per loop -23 ns on 65 ns: this is very significant! I spent like 6 months to implement "FASTCALL" to avoid a single tuple to pass positional arguments and it was only 20 ns faster per call. Additional 23 ns make the code way faster compared than Python without FASTCALL! I estimate something like 80 ns => 42 ns: 2x faster! $ ./python -m timeit "'abc'.replace('x', 'y')" Unpatched: 5000000 loops, best of 5: 101 nsec per loop Patched: 5000000 loops, best of 5: 63.8 nsec per loop -38 ns on 101 ns: that's even more significant! Wow, that's very impressive! Please merge your PR, I want it now :-D Can you maybe add a vague sentence in the Optimizations section of What's New in Python 3.8 ? Something like: "Parsing positional arguments in builtin functions has been made more efficient."? I'm not sure if "builtin" is the proper term here. Functions using Argument Clinic to parse their arguments? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue35582> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com