[Python-3000] pre-PEP: Default Argument Expressions

[Anthony Baxter]

On Wednesday 14 February 2007 15:44, Mike Klaas wrote:
> 2. Performance.  The speed of python is influenced greatly by the
> performance of function dispatch.  This may not show up in
> pystone.

pystone is an utterly useless benchmark. It should not be used, 
ever. The pre-PEP references pybench, which does a much better job 
of showing this sort of thing.