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

[Ian Bicking]

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...

Is it expected that IronPython and Jython will have similar performance 
characteristics to CPython?  That seems hard to achieve.  I would assume 
that the AST hacking would only effect performance (and maybe remove 
some potential dynamicism), so un-AST-hacked code would work identically.


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