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authorYury Selivanov <yury@magic.io>2016-12-14 00:03:51 (GMT)
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Issue #26110: Add LOAD_METHOD/CALL_METHOD opcodes.
Special thanks to INADA Naoki for pushing the patch through the last mile, Serhiy Storchaka for reviewing the code, and to Victor Stinner for suggesting the idea (originally implemented in the PyPy project).
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@@ -92,6 +92,11 @@ Improved Modules
Optimizations
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+* Added two new opcodes: ``LOAD_METHOD`` and ``CALL_METHOD`` to avoid
+ instantiation of bound method objects for method calls, which results
+ in method calls being faster up to 20%.
+ (Contributed by Yury Selivanov and INADA Naoki in :issue:`26110`.)
+
Build and C API Changes
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