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Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 10:13:39 -0500
Subject: Re: Calling a function is faster than not calling it?
From: Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
To: BartC <bc@freeuk.com>
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On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 10:01 AM, BartC <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:
> (1) It has an extra argument ('code'), in addition to any normal arguments
> of func (0 in this case)

Which might well push execution down the unoptimized code path. Also,
ISTR that Steven's original timeit runs tacked on a standalone "eval ;
..." to the function call case, so the LOAD_GLOBAL bytecode would have
been done in the function call case as well. He was, I think, doing
what he could to make the two cases as nearly identical as he could.

Skip