Message 273391 - Python tracker

I just took a quick look at the fastcall_kwargs-2.patch for now. It looks ok in general, but it also adds quite some special code for the dict-to-locals mapping. Is the keyword argument calling case really that important? I mean, it requires creating a dict and filling it, after all. People would rather avoid that in the first place if they care about performance. I wouldn't object, I'm merely asking...