On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
Nick Coghlan wrote:
Couple that with the extra function call overhead (since these wouldn't have real typeslots) and it still seems like a less than stellar idea.
As another use case for solid, efficient generic function support though... great idea :)
Could a generic function mechanism be made to have any less overhead, though?
See my response to Antoine - probably not. Although, as has been pointed out by others, by doing the check for PyFloat_CheckExact early and running the fast path immediately if that check passes, you can avoid most of the overhead in the common case, even when using pseudo-typeslots. So performance impact likely isn't a major factor here after all. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia