[Python-Dev] Idea for a fast calling convention

[Michael Hudson]

Christian Tismer <tismer at stackless.com> writes:

> p.s.: I believe some automatic source analysis and rewrite might pay
> off in other areas as well. Grepping through the sources, there are
> still very many similar patterns of PyArg_ParseTupleXXX calls, which
> could be replaced by less general, optimized versions.  This would
> even *not* cause code bloat, since all those calling sequences would
> be smaller than now.

Well, yes.  C sucks seriously for things like this, though.  It's
frankly embarassing that *every* time, say, ''.split() is called, some
silly string is being parsed.  Unclear what to do about this (excpet
PyPy, I guess).

Cheers,
mwh

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