On 2018-06-26 21:43, Mark Shannon wrote:

https://github.com/markshannon/pep-576

This actually looks close to Victor Stinner's bpo-29259. But instead of storing the function pointer in the class, you're storing it in the instance.

One concern that I have is that this might lead to code duplication. You require that every class implements its own specialized _FOO_FastcallKeywords() function. So you end up with _PyCFunction_FastCallKeywords(), _PyMethodDescr_FastCallKeywords(), _PyFunction_FastCallKeywords(). If I want to implement a similar class myself, I have to reinvent that same wheel again. With PEP 580, I replace all those _FOO_FastCallKeywords() functions by one PyCCall_FASTCALL() function. Admittedly, my PyCCall_FASTCALL() is more complex than each of those _FOO_FastcallKeywords() individually. But overall, I think that PEP 580 leads to simpler code.

Second, you still have a performance problem for methods. You made sure that the method optimizations in the Python bytecode interpreter continue to work, but method calls from C will be slowed down. I don't know to what extent and whether it really matters, but it's something to note.

Jeroen.