[New-bugs-announce] [issue41835] Speed up dict vectorcall creation using keywords

[Marco Sulla]

New submission from Marco Sulla <launchpad.net at marco.sulla.e4ward.com>:

I've done a PR that speeds up the vectorcall creation of a dict using keyword arguments. The PR in practice creates a insertdict_init(), a specialized version of insertdict. I quote the comment to the function:

Same to insertdict but specialized for inserting without resizing and for dict that are populated in a loop and was empty before (see the empty arg).
Note that resizing must be done before calling this function. If not 
possible, use insertdict(). Furthermore, ma_version_tag is left unchanged, you have to change it after calling this function (probably at the end of a loop).

This change speeds up the code up to a 30%. Tested with:

python -m timeit -n 2000  --setup "from uuid import uuid4 ; o =
{str(uuid4()).replace('-', '') : str(uuid4()).replace('-', '') for i
in range(10000)}" "dict(**o)"

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 377318
nosy: Marco Sulla, inada.naoki
priority: normal
pull_requests: 21398
severity: normal
status: open
title: Speed up dict vectorcall creation using keywords
versions: Python 3.10

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