On 21.04.16 20:28, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
On 21.04.16 19:00, Chris Angelico wrote:
Also: How does this interact with **dict calls?
For now we have separate opcode for calls with **kwargs. We will have corresponding opcode with new way to provide keyword arguments.
Instead of 4 current opcodes we will need at most 8 new opcodes. May be less, because calls with *args or **kwargs is less performance critical, we can pack arguments in a tuple and a dict by separate opcodes and call a function just with a tuple and a dict.
Actually I think we need only 3 opcodes: one general and two specialized for common cases.
1. Call with fixed number of positional arguments. This covers about 90% of calls.
2. Call with fixed number of positional and keyword arguments. This covers about 10% of calls.
3. Call with variable number of positional and/or keyword arguments packed in a tuple and a dict. Only 0.5% of calls need this. Since *args and **kwargs can be now used multiple times in the call, there are opcodes for packing arguments: BUILD_LIST_UNPACK and BUILD_MAP_UNPACK_WITH_CALL.