From: Petr Viktorin <encukou@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 12:16:16 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: bpo-37207: Use vectorcall for list() (GH-18928)
X-Git-Tag: v3.9.0a6~249
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ce105541f8ebcf2dffcadedfdeffdb698a0edb44;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

bpo-37207: Use vectorcall for list() (GH-18928)

Speed up calls to list() by using the PEP 590 vectorcall
calling convention. Patch by Mark Shannon.

Co-authored-by: Mark Shannon <mark@hotpy.org>
Co-authored-by: Dong-hee Na <donghee.na92@gmail.com>
---

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-06-09-10-54-31.bpo-37207.bLjgLS.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-06-09-10-54-31.bpo-37207.bLjgLS.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b6d0236db463
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-06-09-10-54-31.bpo-37207.bLjgLS.rst	
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Speed up calls to ``list()`` by using the :pep:`590` ``vectorcall``
+calling convention. Patch by Mark Shannon.
diff --git a/Objects/listobject.c b/Objects/listobject.c
index 4e2b6a9c1609..91687bcd2291 100644
--- a/Objects/listobject.c
+++ b/Objects/listobject.c
@@ -2719,6 +2719,33 @@ list___init___impl(PyListObject *self, PyObject *iterable)
     return 0;
 }
 
+static PyObject *
+list_vectorcall(PyObject *type, PyObject * const*args,
+                size_t nargsf, PyObject *kwnames)
+{
+    if (!_PyArg_NoKwnames("list", kwnames)) {
+        return NULL;
+    }
+    Py_ssize_t nargs = PyVectorcall_NARGS(nargsf);
+    if (!_PyArg_CheckPositional("list", nargs, 0, 1)) {
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
+    assert(PyType_Check(type));
+    PyObject *list = PyType_GenericAlloc((PyTypeObject *)type, 0);
+    if (list == NULL) {
+        return NULL;
+    }
+    if (nargs) {
+        if (list___init___impl((PyListObject *)list, args[0])) {
+            Py_DECREF(list);
+            return NULL;
+        }
+    }
+    return list;
+}
+
+
 /*[clinic input]
 list.__sizeof__
 
@@ -3034,6 +3061,7 @@ PyTypeObject PyList_Type = {
     PyType_GenericAlloc,                        /* tp_alloc */
     PyType_GenericNew,                          /* tp_new */
     PyObject_GC_Del,                            /* tp_free */
+    .tp_vectorcall = list_vectorcall,
 };
 
 /*********************** List Iterator **************************/