On 9/12/21 12:03 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
does that mean that the compiler will translate the above to:def eggs(a, b, c): def spam(*args): # Do something with args... thing = spam(a, b, c) ...
If that's what's intended, it wouldn't really be an inline function. And I doubt it would make any significant difference to speed, because looking up the function is only a small part of what makes function calls expensive in Python -- most of it is in the parameter processing, which can get quite complicated. What inlining usually means is to copy the body of the function in place of the call, with appropriate parameter substitutions. That would eliminate most of the overhead of a function call, but there are problems with doing it in Python. Imported modules would have to be located and parsed at compile time, something that doesn't currently happen. And it can't be done in general-- the location of an imported module isn't know for sure until run time, because changes can be made dynamically to sys.path. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/HOI6WUVSPEGJEYXEOKRTNIA42WVOZYNJ/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
