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

[Greg Ewing]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On 4/18/06, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

>>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...

Would automatically falling back on non-inlining be
acceptable if suitable ast support was not available?

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

Hmmm... all right, "automatic transparent compile-time
code rewriting", then. Or "throatwarbling" for short.

--
Greg