bpo-39028: Performance enhancement in keyword extraction (GH-17576)

All keywords should first be checked for pointer identity. Only
after that failed for all keywords (unlikely) should unicode
equality be used.
The original code would call unicode equality on any non-matching
keyword argument. Meaning calling it often e.g. when a function
has many kwargs but only the last one is provided.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Python/getargs.c b/Python/getargs.c
index 351889f8e51..d5caf47a028 100644
--- a/Python/getargs.c
+++ b/Python/getargs.c
@@ -2053,14 +2053,18 @@ find_keyword(PyObject *kwnames, PyObject *const *kwstack, PyObject *key)
     Py_ssize_t i, nkwargs;
 
     nkwargs = PyTuple_GET_SIZE(kwnames);
-    for (i=0; i < nkwargs; i++) {
+    for (i = 0; i < nkwargs; i++) {
         PyObject *kwname = PyTuple_GET_ITEM(kwnames, i);
 
-        /* ptr==ptr should match in most cases since keyword keys
-           should be interned strings */
+        /* kwname == key will normally find a match in since keyword keys
+           should be interned strings; if not retry below in a new loop. */
         if (kwname == key) {
             return kwstack[i];
         }
+    }
+
+    for (i = 0; i < nkwargs; i++) {
+        PyObject *kwname = PyTuple_GET_ITEM(kwnames, i);
         assert(PyUnicode_Check(kwname));
         if (_PyUnicode_EQ(kwname, key)) {
             return kwstack[i];