Jeroen Demeyer wrote:
Let me just say that the code for METH_FASTCALL function/method calls is optimized for a stack layout: a piece of the stack is used directly for calling METH_FASTCALL functions
We might be able to get some ideas for dealing with this kind of thing from register-window architectures such as the SPARC, where the registers containing the locals of a calling function become the input parameters to a called function. More generally, it's common to have a calling convention where the first N parameters are assumed to reside in a specific range of registers. If the compiler is smart enough, it can often arrange the evaluation of the parameter expressions so that the results end up in the right registers for making the call. -- Greg