[Python-Dev] Re: a serious threat to 2.3's speed? (original) (raw)

Alex Martelli aleax at aleax.it
Thu Dec 11 10:40:18 EST 2003

On Thursday 11 December 2003 04:09 pm, Skip Montanaro wrote:

>> Another option for a masters thesis Brett - speeding up function >> calls :)

Fredrik> that would be most excellent. Indeed. We should make sure we're comparing apples to apples when looking at Jim's benchmark figures though. It's not clear to me that his current system supports all the different types of callables which CPython supports. That alone might streamline his function call code a lot.

How so? Isn't one "indirecting" through the tp_call slot anyway? Supporting two or two thousand types of callables should make function calls just about the same cost -- or am I missing something...?

Alex

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