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authorJeroen Demeyer <J.Demeyer@UGent.be>2019-06-02 23:43:13 (GMT)
committerPetr Viktorin <encukou@gmail.com>2019-06-02 23:43:13 (GMT)
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bpo-36974: document PEP 590 (GH-13450)
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@@ -238,6 +238,22 @@ See :pep:`587` for a full description.
(Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`36763`.)
+Vectorcall: a fast calling protocol for CPython
+-----------------------------------------------
+
+The "vectorcall" protocol is added to the Python/C API.
+It is meant to formalize existing optimizations which were already done
+for various classes.
+Any extension type implementing a callable can use this protocol.
+
+This is currently provisional,
+the aim is to make it fully public in Python 3.9.
+
+See :pep:`590` for a full description.
+
+(Contributed by Jeroen Demeyer and Mark Shannon in :issue:`36974`.)
+
+
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