On Friday 27 February 2004 03:20 am, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
I've been working on ways to speedup parameter passing for function calls. It's somewhat expensive to pull parameters off of the stack, assemble them into a new tuple, have the function disassemble the tuple, and ultimately free the tuple. ... My idea is for a new flag, METH_STACK, that generalizes (and potentially replaces) METH_NOARGS AND METH_O.
How would METH_STACK methods work when called via func(*args) or via the various functions of the C API? The nice thing about METH_NOARGS and METH_O is that they describe what the called function needs. METH_STACK sounds like a core dump waiting to happen. ;-( -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> PythonLabs at Zope Corporation