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  r65240 | antoine.pitrou | 2008-07-26 00:02:07 +0200 (sam., 26 juil. 2008) | 3 lines

  add a pybench test for complex function calls (part of #1819)
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  r65241 | antoine.pitrou | 2008-07-26 00:13:52 +0200 (sam., 26 juil. 2008) | 4 lines

  Raymond's patch for #1819: speedup function calls with named parameters
  (35% faster according to pybench)
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  r65242 | antoine.pitrou | 2008-07-26 00:22:08 +0200 (sam., 26 juil. 2008) | 3 lines

  add a NEWS entry
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Tools/pybench/Calls.py

@@ -109,6 +109,64 @@ class PythonFunctionCalls(Test):
 
 ###
 
+class ComplexPythonFunctionCalls(Test):
+
+    version = 2.0
+    operations = 4*5
+    rounds = 100000
+
+    def test(self):
+
+        # define functions
+        def f(a,b,c,d=1,e=2,f=3):
+            return f
+
+        args = 1,2
+        kwargs = dict(c=3,d=4,e=5)
+
+        # do calls
+        for i in range(self.rounds):
+            f(a=i,b=i,c=i)
+            f(f=i,e=i,d=i,c=2,b=i,a=3)
+            f(1,b=i,**kwargs)
+            f(*args,**kwargs)
+
+            f(a=i,b=i,c=i)
+            f(f=i,e=i,d=i,c=2,b=i,a=3)
+            f(1,b=i,**kwargs)
+            f(*args,**kwargs)
+
+            f(a=i,b=i,c=i)
+            f(f=i,e=i,d=i,c=2,b=i,a=3)
+            f(1,b=i,**kwargs)
+            f(*args,**kwargs)
+
+            f(a=i,b=i,c=i)
+            f(f=i,e=i,d=i,c=2,b=i,a=3)
+            f(1,b=i,**kwargs)
+            f(*args,**kwargs)
+
+            f(a=i,b=i,c=i)
+            f(f=i,e=i,d=i,c=2,b=i,a=3)
+            f(1,b=i,**kwargs)
+            f(*args,**kwargs)
+
+
+    def calibrate(self):
+
+        # define functions
+        def f(a,b,c,d=1,e=2,f=3):
+            return f
+
+        args = 1,2
+        kwargs = dict(c=3,d=4,e=5)
+
+        # do calls
+        for i in range(self.rounds):
+            pass
+
+###
+
 class BuiltinFunctionCalls(Test):
 
     version = 2.0