On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 6:43 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@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. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list