[Python-ideas] Faster PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords kwargs

[dw+python-ideas at hmmz.org]

On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 08:07:17PM +0000, dw+python-ideas at hmmz.org wrote:

> Perhaps the most off-the-wall approach would be to completely preserve
> the existing interface, by using a dollop of assembly to fetch the
> return address, and use that to maintain some internal hash table.
> 
> That's incredibly nasty, but as a systemic speedup it might be worth it?

Final (obvious in hindsight) suggestion: mix 'fmt' and 'keywords'
argument pointers together for use as a hash key into a table within
getargs.c, no nasty asm or interface changes necessary.


David