[Python-Dev] Accepting PEP 560 -- Core support for typing module and generic types (original) (raw)

Serhiy Storchaka storchaka at gmail.com
Fri Dec 15 12🔞11 EST 2017

15.12.17 18:36, Antoine Pitrou пише:

Do you have any general idea how to speed up class creation?

Some work was done in [https://bugs.python.org/issue31336]. Currently I have no ideas.

Creating a class is 1-2 orders slower than creating a function. And adding parent classes significantly slows down it.

$ ./python -m perf timeit --duplicate=100 'def f(s): pass' ..................... Mean +- std dev: 50.4 ns +- 0.8 ns $ ./python -m perf timeit --duplicate=100 'class C: pass' ..................... Mean +- std dev: 6.80 us +- 0.14 us $ ./python -m perf timeit --duplicate=100 'class C:' ' def m(s): pass' ..................... Mean +- std dev: 7.11 us +- 0.11 us $ ./python -m perf timeit --duplicate=100 'class C(str): pass' ..................... Mean +- std dev: 8.47 us +- 0.34 us

I'm surprised that that creating a method is much slower (6 times!) than creating a function. Maybe due to set_name or other magic.

It isn't surprised that creating an enum or namedtuple class is much slower than creating a regular class. The latter was much worse before 3.7.

$ ./python -m perf timeit -s 'from enum import Enum' --duplicate=100 'class E(Enum): A = 1' ..................... Mean +- std dev: 45.9 us +- 0.8 us $ ./python -m perf timeit -s 'from collections import namedtuple' --duplicate=100 'P = namedtuple("P", ("x",))' ..................... Mean +- std dev: 44.7 us +- 0.6 us

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