[Python-Dev] On the METH_FASTCALL calling convention

[INADA Naoki]

On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 7:29 AM Victor Stinner <vstinner at redhat.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I designed FASTCALL with the help of Serhiy for keywords. I prepared a long email reply, but I found an opportunity for optimisation on **kwargs and I need time to see how to optimize it.
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> Maybe there is a need for passing **kwargs as a dict at C level, but use FASTCALL for positional arguments? I only know dict.update() which would benefit of that. All other functions are fine with FASTCALL for keywords.
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> Victor
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I agree with Jeroen.  If only few methods can be improved, it's not
necessary.  METH_VARARGS | METH_KEYWORDS is fine.

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INADA Naoki  <songofacandy at gmail.com>