Building CPython

[Ian Kelly]

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 9:00 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Looks like it is already being done:
https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/e7c7431f91b2/Objects/methodobject.c#l7