Speed: bytecode vz C API calls

[Aahz]

In article <tyf8yllyq51.fsf at pcepsft001.cern.ch>,
Jacek Generowicz  <jacek.generowicz at cern.ch> wrote:
>
>I tried something similar, namely inlining the 
>
>  try: return cache[args]
>  except KeyError: return cache.setdefault(args, callable(*args))
>      
>rather than using proxy. This gives a little over a factor of 3
>speedup, but it's not something I can use everywhere, as often the
>proxy is called inside map(...)

Why are you using map()?  Generally speaking, map() won't be any faster
than a for loop.
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