Building CPython

[Ian Kelly]

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 6:43 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> How much time would it save? Probably very little. After all, unless the
> method call itself did bugger-all work, the time to create the method
> object is probably insignificant. But it's a possible optimization.

An interesting alternative (if it's not already being done) might be
to maintain a limited free-list of method objects, removing the need
to allocate memory for one before filling it in with data.