[Python-3000] Speeding up function calls

[Guido van Rossum]

On 4/29/06, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 29, 2006, Talin wrote:
> > My proposal is that we skip the middle portion of this process, and
> > pass the initial 4 collections directly to the called function.
>
> IIRC, you've already been asked to profile the machinery to find out
> whether frame creation is still the primary bottleneck for slow function
> calls.  Would you mind doing that before pushing a radical API change?

What he said. I'd be very excited if you produced a patch that showed
a significant speedup. Until then I don't have the time to think about
this much.

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