Add a new public PyObject_CallNoArgs() function to the C API: call a
callable Python object without any arguments.
It is the most efficient way to call a callback without any argument.
On x86-64, for example, PyObject_CallFunctionObjArgs(func, NULL)
allocates 960 bytes on the stack per call, whereas
PyObject_CallNoArgs(func) only allocates 624 bytes per call.
It is excluded from stable ABI 3.8.
Replace private _PyObject_CallNoArg() with public
PyObject_CallNoArgs() in C extensions: _asyncio, _datetime,
_elementtree, _pickle, _tkinter and readline.
During development of the limited API support for PySide,
we saw an error in a macro that accessed a type field.
This patch fixes the 7 errors in the Python headers.
Macros which were not written as capitals were implemented
as function.
To do the necessary analysis again, a script was included that
parses all headers and looks for "->tp_" in serctions which can
be reached with active limited API.
It is easily possible to call this script as a test.
Error listing:
../../Include/objimpl.h:243
#define PyObject_IS_GC(o) (PyType_IS_GC(Py_TYPE(o)) && \
(Py_TYPE(o)->tp_is_gc == NULL || Py_TYPE(o)->tp_is_gc(o)))
Action: commented only
../../Include/objimpl.h:362
#define PyType_SUPPORTS_WEAKREFS(t) ((t)->tp_weaklistoffset > 0)
Action: commented only
../../Include/objimpl.h:364
#define PyObject_GET_WEAKREFS_LISTPTR(o) \
((PyObject **) (((char *) (o)) + Py_TYPE(o)->tp_weaklistoffset))
Action: commented only
../../Include/pyerrors.h:143
#define PyExceptionClass_Name(x) \
((char *)(((PyTypeObject*)(x))->tp_name))
Action: implemented function
../../Include/abstract.h:593
#define PyIter_Check(obj) \
((obj)->ob_type->tp_iternext != NULL && \
(obj)->ob_type->tp_iternext != &_PyObject_NextNotImplemented)
Action: implemented function
../../Include/abstract.h:713
#define PyIndex_Check(obj) \
((obj)->ob_type->tp_as_number != NULL && \
(obj)->ob_type->tp_as_number->nb_index != NULL)
Action: implemented function
../../Include/abstract.h:924
#define PySequence_ITEM(o, i)\
( Py_TYPE(o)->tp_as_sequence->sq_item(o, i) )
Action: commented only
* Add _PyObject_HasFastCall()
* partial_call() now avoids temporary tuple to pass positional
arguments if the callable supports the FASTCALL calling convention
for positional arguments.
* Fix also a performance regression in partial_call() if the callable
doesn't support FASTCALL.
Issue #29507: Optimize slots calling Python methods. For Python methods, get
the unbound Python function and prepend arguments with self, rather than
calling the descriptor which creates a temporary PyMethodObject.
Add a new _PyObject_FastCall_Prepend() function used to call the unbound Python
method with self. It avoids the creation of a temporary tuple to pass
positional arguments.
Avoiding temporary PyMethodObject and avoiding temporary tuple makes Python
slots up to 1.46x faster. Microbenchmark on a __getitem__() method implemented
in Python:
Median +- std dev: 121 ns +- 5 ns -> 82.8 ns +- 1.0 ns: 1.46x faster (-31%)
Co-Authored-by: INADA Naoki <songofacandy@gmail.com>
