[Python-3000] Function call speed (Was: Cleaning up argument list parsing)

Tue Apr 18 18:59:41 CEST 2006

Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>>Inlining
>>>code obviously addresses this, but that's often killing code
>>>structure.
>>>>Would automated inlining be a legitimate use for ast-hacking?
>>> Perhaps, if you can do it in a way that it also works for IronPython
> and Jython...

Is it expected that IronPython and Jython will have similar performance 
characteristics to CPython? That seems hard to achieve. I would assume 
that the AST hacking would only effect performance (and maybe remove 
some potential dynamicism), so un-AST-hacked code would work identically.
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Ian Bicking / ianb at colorstudy.com / http://blog.ianbicking.org