bpo-38328: Speed up the creation time of constant list literals.#16498
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This PR contains a small change to the peephole optimizer that converts sequences of:
LOAD_CONST(a),LOAD_CONST(b), ...,BUILD_LIST(n)to
LOAD_CONST((a, b, ...)),BUILD_LIST_UNPACK(1)The improvement quickly becomes significant for lists larger than a few items:
This can be tested on any version of Python by comparing the performance of
[0, 1, 2, ...]vs[*(0, 1, 2, ...)]. The common cases of empty and single-element lists are not affected by this change.This is related to bpo-33325, but that was an invasive change for all collection literals that had an unknown affect on performance. I've limited this one to lists and kept it to a few lines in the peephole optimizer.
https://bugs.python.org/issue38328