[Python-Dev] __getattr__ and new style classes

[Nick Coghlan]

Kristján Valur Jónsson wrote:
> Hello there.
> 
> I‘ve just noticed what I consider a performance problem:
> 
> Using new style classes to provide attribute-like access using
> __getattr__ is considerably slower than old style classes:  Observe:

I can't reproduce those relative numbers using SVN trunk. Using your
setup code (copied and pasted directly from your message to my
interpreter session) I got the following numbers:


>>> timeit.Timer('d.foo', s).timeit()
1.2362558841705322
>>> timeit.Timer('d2.foo', s).timeit()
1.1634600162506104
>>> timeit.Timer('d.foo', s).timeit()
1.1840031147003174
>>> timeit.Timer('d2.foo', s).timeit()
1.1554200649261475

(a slight speed advantage to the new-style class for __getattr__)

>>> timeit.Timer('d.bar', s).timeit()
0.17601609230041504
>>> timeit.Timer('d2.bar', s).timeit()
0.18697309494018555
>>> timeit.Timer('d.bar', s).timeit()
0.1711127758026123
>>> timeit.Timer('d2.bar', s).timeit()
0.1827549934387207

(very slight speed advantage to the old-style class for the unbound method)

Cheers,
Nick.

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