[Python-Dev] Idea for a fast calling convention

[Bob Ippolito]

On Mar 1, 2004, at 5:52 AM, Michael Hudson wrote:

> 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).

Surely there's other reasonable options.  For example, we could start 
using something like Pyrex that could be modified to generate whatever 
gnarly C code needs to happen for optimal runtime performance with 
minimal input ugliness :)

-bob