On 4/17/06, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Talin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The important thing is that the behavior be clear and unambiguous, > > which I think this is. > > Many would also prefer that functions calls not become noticeable slower > than they already are.
How slow *are* function calls? There seems to be a common "function calls in Python are slow" meme. It's never been a significant issue for me, but my code is pretty much always IO-bound, so that doesn't surprise me. Are they slow enough to warrant serious effort to speed them up? More specifically (and more on-topic :-)) is there any room for speeding up function calls in Python 3000? Given that pure performance improvements are clearly OK for 2.x, I'm thinking of cases where it would be necessary to impose language-level restrictions to ease the optimisation process. Paul. _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
