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gh-138912: Improve MATCH_CLASS opcode performance#138915

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@cdce8p cdce8p commented Sep 15, 2025

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if (seen == NULL) {
return NULL;
PyObject *seen = NULL;
if (nattrs > 1) {
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if (nattrs > 1) {
if (nargs > 1 || (nargs == 1 && nkwargs > 0)) {

As mentioned in #138912, I'd also like to change this. If there are only keyword arguments, it's easy to see if two are the same name. Furthermore linters are able to detect these based on the AST alone.

It would also be great to say if we could suggest users to prefer keyword arguments. Not only are they more explicit, they are also faster. (No lookup of __match_args__ and, with the change, no expensive duplicate name detection.)

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Added this in f585253 with if (nargs > 0 && nattrs > 1). I can revert it if necessary.

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Only mentioned it on the issue a while ago but the keyword attributes are validated already during the compile stage at which point a SyntaxError is raised. Just added an explicit test case for it in 9375e2b.

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The CI failure seems unrelated. Updating the branch to rerun the CI just to be sure.

@cdce8p cdce8p force-pushed the match-class-performance branch from 359df88 to e0c2c1e Compare November 20, 2025 10:39
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LGTM

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nice!

@gpshead gpshead added the performance Performance or resource usage label Feb 14, 2026
@gpshead gpshead merged commit 75d4839 into python:main Feb 14, 2026
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@cdce8p cdce8p deleted the match-class-performance branch February 14, 2026 09:59
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cdce8p commented Feb 14, 2026

Thanks for the review @gpshead. Is this change something which could be backported to 3.14 and maybe 3.13? Would be great to not have to wait until 3.15 for the performance improvements here.

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