[issue44850] Could operator.methodcaller be optimized using LOAD_METHOD?

[Dennis Sweeney]

Dennis Sweeney <sweeney.dennis650 at gmail.com> added the comment:

For what it's worth, in my benchmarks on 3.11, methodcaller was already a bit faster than lambda:

#################### Builtin calls ####################

PS > .\python.bat -m pyperf timeit -s "from operator import methodcaller as mc" -s "reverse_it = mc('reverse')" -s "arr = []" "reverse_it(arr)"
Running Release|x64 interpreter...
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Mean +- std dev: 84.3 ns +- 1.9 ns

PS >.\python.bat -m pyperf timeit -s "reverse_it = lambda x: x.reverse()" -s "arr = []" "reverse_it(arr)"
Running Release|x64 interpreter...
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Mean +- std dev: 95.5 ns +- 2.9 ns

#################### Python calls ####################

PS > .\python.bat -m pyperf timeit -s "from operator import methodcaller as mc" -s "reverse_it = mc('reverse')" -s "class A: reverse = lambda self: None" -s "arr=A()" "reverse_it(arr)"
Running Release|x64 interpreter...
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Mean +- std dev: 140 ns +- 4 ns
PS > .\python.bat -m pyperf timeit -s "reverse_it = lambda x: x.reverse()" -s "class A: reverse = lambda self: None" -s "arr=A()" "reverse_it(arr)"
Running Release|x64 interpreter...
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Mean +- std dev: 159 ns +- 4 ns

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