[Python-Dev] Looking for master thesis ideas involving Python
Michael Hudson
mwh at python.net
Wed Oct 29 13:33:41 EST 2003
"Phillip J. Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com> writes:
> * Direct use of positional arguments on the stack as the "locals" of
> the next function called, without creating (and then unpacking) an
> argument tuple, in the case where there are no */** arguments
> provided by the caller.
Already done, unless I misunderstand your idea. Well, the arguments
might still get copied into the new frame's locals area but I'm pretty
sure no tuple is involved.
Cheers,
mwh
--
That being done, all you have to do next is call free() slightly
less often than malloc(). You may want to examine the Solaris
system libraries for a particularly ambitious implementation of
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