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Author gregory.p.smith
Recipients Arfrever, Julien.Palard, Ramchandra Apte, berker.peksag, brian.curtin, eric.araujo, eric.snow, ezio.melotti, gregory.p.smith, gruszczy, martin.panter, meatballhat, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka
Date 2015-04-20.06:05:46
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I wouldn't make an efficiency argument against it without trying it and
showing reproducible degradation in the hg.python.org/benchmarks suite.

On Sun, Apr 19, 2015, 10:31 PM Serhiy Storchaka <report@bugs.python.org>
wrote:

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> Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:
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> Supporting keyword arguments has performance loss. For fast builtins it
> make be significant. We should defer adding keyword arguments support until
> more efficient parsing will implemented. Note that it is easier to
> implement efficient argument parsing for functions with positional-only
> arguments (see for example issue23867).
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