[Python-3000] Function call speed (Was: Cleaning up argument list parsing)

[Guido van Rossum]

On 4/18/06, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
> > Inlining
> > code obviously addresses this, but that's often killing code
> > structure.
>
> Would automated inlining be a legitimate use for ast-hacking?

Perhaps, if you can do it in a way that it also works for IronPython
and Jython...

Though anything for which you can't come up with a better word than
"hacking" probably oughtn't be in the language spec. :-)

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