[issue29461] Experiment usage of likely/unlikely in CPython core
STINNER Victor
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Mon Feb 6 04:45:46 EST 2017
STINNER Victor added the comment:
Copy of msg287111 (issue #29460), Serhiy Storchaka (serhiy.storchaka):
> The next question might it: would it be worth it to try using unlikely()
> macro on (kwargs == NULL) test in the macro? ;-)
Perhaps this may help in some critical tight loops (in implementations of
dict, string operations or long integer arithmetic), but I doubt it can have
any measurable effect when used once per a call of a function calling
PyArg_Parse* and using many other stuff.
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