[Python-Dev] Removing the block stack (was Re: PEP 343 and with) (original) (raw)

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Mon Oct 10 03🔞30 CEST 2005


At 01:33 PM 10/10/2005 +1300, Greg Ewing wrote:

Phillip J. Eby wrote:

> Clearly, the cost of function calls in Python lies somewhere else, and I'd > probably look next at parameter tuple allocation, For simple calls where there aren't any *args or other such complications, it seems like it should be possible to just copy the args from the calling frame straight into the called one. Or is this already done these days?

It's already done, if the number of arguments matches, the code flags are just so, etc.



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