it was very good. But there was a win only if one can avoid the overhead of function-calls, which is slowest thing in python - magnitude+ more than anything els

it was very good. But there was a win only if one can avoid the overhead of function-calls, which is slowest thing in python - magnitude+ more than anything else (well, apart of exception throwing which is even slower, but.. rare). In my case, the speedup in calculations was lost in slowdown because of funccals.. so i ended up grouping and jamming most calculations in one-big-func(TM).. and then that was psyco-assembly-zed. btw funccalls are still slowest thing. somedict.get(x) is almost 2x slower than (x in somedict and somedict[x]). In my last-year attempt to optimizing transit-protocol lib [0], bundling / copying few one-line calls in one 5-line func was the biggest win - and of course, not-doing some things at all. [0] https://github.com/svilendobrev/transit-python3/blob/master/benchmark/timing-probi.py https://github.com/svilendobrev/transit-python3/blob/master/...