bpo-29735: Optimize partial_call(): avoid tuple (#516)

* Add _PyObject_HasFastCall()
* partial_call() now avoids temporary tuple to pass positional
  arguments if the callable supports the FASTCALL calling convention
  for positional arguments.
* Fix also a performance regression in partial_call() if the callable
  doesn't support FASTCALL.

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Objects/call.c b/Objects/call.c
index f1b14080ff..dd022ec6e8 100644
--- a/Objects/call.c
+++ b/Objects/call.c
@@ -2,6 +2,22 @@
 #include "frameobject.h"
 
 
+int
+_PyObject_HasFastCall(PyObject *callable)
+{
+    if (PyFunction_Check(callable)) {
+        return 1;
+    }
+    else if (PyCFunction_Check(callable)) {
+        return !(PyCFunction_GET_FLAGS(callable) & METH_VARARGS);
+    }
+    else {
+        assert (PyCallable_Check(callable));
+        return 0;
+    }
+}
+
+
 static PyObject *
 null_error(void)
 {