From da20fce9c329acd8cf06162bd22be6e9b1fc1bc8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremy Hylton <jeremy@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 20:53:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add a second special case to the inline function call code in
 eval_code2().

If we have a PyCFunction (builtin) and it is METH_VARARGS only, load
the args and dispatch to call_cfunction() directly.  This provides a
small speedup for perhaps the most common function calls -- builtins.
---
 Python/ceval.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Python/ceval.c b/Python/ceval.c
index 0cdd0199b96..e407de49a95 100644
--- a/Python/ceval.c
+++ b/Python/ceval.c
@@ -1969,7 +1969,13 @@ eval_code2(PyCodeObject *co, PyObject *globals, PyObject *locals,
 		       callable object.
 		    */
 		    if (PyCFunction_Check(func)) {
-			    if (PyCFunction_GET_FLAGS(func) == 0) {
+			    int flags = PyCFunction_GET_FLAGS(func);
+			    if (flags == METH_VARARGS) {
+				    PyObject *callargs;
+				    callargs = load_args(&stack_pointer, na);
+				    x = call_cfunction(func, callargs, NULL);
+				    Py_XDECREF(callargs); 
+			    } else if (flags == 0) {
 				    x = fast_cfunction(func,
 						       &stack_pointer, na);
 			    } else {