At 06:33 PM 10/29/03 +0000, Michael Hudson wrote:
"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.
Hm. I thought that particular optimization only could take place when the function lacks default arguments. But maybe I've misread that part. If it's true in all cases, then argument tuple creation isn't where the overhead is coming from. Anyway... it wouldn't be a good thesis idea if the answer were as obvious as my speculations, would it? ;)