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authorSerhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>2016-08-14 07:52:18 (GMT)
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Issue #27574: Decreased an overhead of parsing keyword arguments in functions
implemented with using Argument Clinic.
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@@ -579,6 +579,13 @@ Optimizations
deserializing many small objects (Contributed by Victor Stinner in
:issue:`27056`).
+- Passing :term:`keyword arguments <keyword argument>` to a function has an
+ overhead in comparison with passing :term:`positional arguments
+ <positional argument>`. Now in extension functions implemented with using
+ Argument Clinic this overhead is significantly decreased.
+ (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`27574`).
+
+
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