Thanks for explaining the differences tho. I got confused between the decorator and the decorator factory, thinking the decorator had a function inside it. Sorry :) On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 10:42 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
Whoops, Nick already did the micro-benchmarks, and showed that creating a function object is faster than instantiating a class. He also measured
On 3 January 2016 at 13:48, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote: the
size, but I think he forgot that sys.getsizeof() doesn't report the size (recursively) of contained objects -- a class instance references a dict which is another 288 bytes (though if you care you can get rid of this by using __slots__).
You're right I forgot to account for that (54 bytes without __slots__ did seem surprisingly small!), but functions also always allocate f.__annotations__ at the moment.
Always allocating f.__annotations__ actually puzzled me a bit - did we do that for a specific reason, or did we just not think of setting it to None when it's unused to save space the way we do for other function attributes? (__closure__, __defaults__, etc)
Cheers, Nick.
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