[Python-Dev] Update on PEP 523 and adding a co_extra field to code objects (original) (raw)

Dino Viehland dinov at microsoft.com
Fri Sep 2 14:55:12 EDT 2016

So I ran the tests with both a list and a tuple. They were about 5% slower on a handful of benchmarks, and then the difference between the tuple and list again had a few benchmarks that were around 5% slower. There was one benchmark where the tuple one significantly for some reason (mako_v2) which was 1.4x slower. It seems to me we should go with the tuple just because the common case will be having a single object and it'll be even less common to have these changing very frequently.

-----Original Message----- From: Python-Dev [mailto:python-dev-bounces+dinov=microsoft.com at python.org] On Behalf Of Chris Angelico Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2016 2:11 PM To: python-dev <python-dev at python.org> Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Update on PEP 523 and adding a co_extra field to code objects

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 4:55 AM, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com> wrote:

On 30.08.16 21:20, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 18:12:01 +0000 Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

Why not make it always a list? List objects are reasonably cheap in memory and access time... (unlike dicts)

Because I would prefer to avoid any form of unnecessary performance overhead for the common case. But the performance overhead of iterating over a 1-element list is small enough (it's just an array access after a pointer dereference) that it may not be larger than the overhead of the multiple tests and conditional branches your example shows. Iterating over a tuple is even faster. It needs one pointer dereference less. And for memory efficiency we can use just a raw array of pointers.

Didn't all this kind of thing come up when function annotations were discussed? Insane schemes like dictionaries with UUID keys and so on. The decision then was YAGNI. The decision now, IMO, should be the same. Keep things simple.

ChrisA

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