Hi Jeroen, On 15/04/2019 9:38 am, Jeroen Demeyer wrote:
On 2019-04-14 13:30, Mark Shannon wrote:
PY_VECTORCALL_ARGUMENTS_OFFSET exists so that callables that make onward calls with an additional argument can do so efficiently. The obvious example is bound-methods, but classes are at least as important. cls(*args) -> cls.new(cls, *args) -> cls.__init__(self, *args)
But tp_new and tp_init take the "cls" and "self" as separate arguments, not as part of *args. So I don't see why you need PY_VECTORCALL_ARGUMENTS_OFFSET for this.
Here's some (untested) code for an implementation of vectorcall for object subtypes implemented in Python. It uses PY_VECTORCALL_ARGUMENTS_OFFSET to save memory allocation when calling the __init__ method. https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/9ff46e3ba0747f386f9519933910d63d5ca... Cheers, Mark.