Re: [Python-Dev] Looking for master thesis ideas involving Python

"Phillip J. Eby" <pje@telecommunity.com> writes:

* Direct use of positional arguments on the stack as the "locals" of the next function called, without creating (and then unpacking) an argument tuple, in the case where there are no */** arguments provided by the caller.

Already done, unless I misunderstand your idea. Well, the arguments might still get copied into the new frame's locals area but I'm pretty sure no tuple is involved. Cheers, mwh -- That being done, all you have to do next is call free() slightly less often than malloc(). You may want to examine the Solaris system libraries for a particularly ambitious implementation of this technique. -- Eric O'Dell, comp.lang.dylan (& x-posts)