In a function call with named arguments the code generated doesn't follow
that pattern:
dis.dis(lambda : f(a=1,b=2,c=3))
displays:
1 0 LOAD_GLOBAL 0 (foo)
3 LOAD_CONST 1 ('a')
6 LOAD_CONST 2 (1)
9 LOAD_CONST 3 ('b')
12 LOAD_CONST 4 (2)
15 LOAD_CONST 5 ('c')
18 LOAD_CONST 6 (3)
21 CALL_FUNCTION 768
24 RETURN_VALUE
so the problem is only about inlined dicts (somewhat common but not
ubiquitous as they are in Javascript).
Andrea
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 12:57 AM, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz>
wrote:
> On 01/21/2015 11:16 PM, Neil Girdhar wrote:
>
>> Why not have BUILD_MAP work like BUILD_LIST? I.e., STORE_MAP takes a
>> parameter n and adds the last n pairs of stack elements into the n-1 stack
>> element (the dictionary).
>>
>
> It probably wouldn't make much difference. Building a list is
> substantially cheaper if you have all the items on hand and can
> copy them in en masse. But adding an item to a dict entails
> quite a lot of overhead, since you need to hash the key, look
> for a free slot, etc. and this would likely swamp any gain
> from executing less bytecodes. And on the other side of the
> equation, evaluating the items one at a time requires less
> stack space, so the stack frame can be smaller.
>
> But as always, you can't be sure without measuring it, and
> this would be a good thing for someone interested to try out.
>
> --
> Greg
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