[Cython] Fwd: Re: [cython-users] checking for "None" in nogil function

[mark florisson]

On 7 May 2012 17:12, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:
> Dag Sverre Seljebotn, 07.05.2012 18:07:
>> On 05/07/2012 06:04 PM, mark florisson wrote:
>>> On 7 May 2012 12:10, Stefan Behnel wrote:
>>>> BTW, is there a reason why we shouldn't allow a "not None" declaration for
>>>> cdef functions? Obviously, the caller would have to do the check in that
>>>> case.
>>>
>>> Why can't the callee just check it? If it's None, just raise an
>>> exception like usual?
>>
>> It's just that there's a lot more potential for rather easy optimization if
>> the caller does it.
>
> Exactly. The NoneCheckNode is easy to get rid of at any stage in the
> pipeline, whereas a hard coded None check has a fixed cost at runtime.
>
> Stefan
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I see, yes. I expect a pointer comparison to be reasonably
insignificant compared to function call overhead, but it would also
reduce the code in the instruction cache. If you take the address of
the function though, or if you declare it public in a pxd, you
probably don't want to do that, as you still want to be safe when
called from C. Could do the same trick as in the 'less annotations'
CEP though, that would be nice.