Specialize complex function dispatcher #1207
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Please consider this PR, which adds a variant of the complex dispatcher that applies when no overloads have kwargs and all overloads have 8 or fewer arguments.
When binding an existing C++ library in order to provide Python support, it's common to have functions that either have default values, or accept
nullptr(i.e.,None), or have parameters for whichnoconvertis desirable (especially for nd-array parameters). These are features of C++, as is having only positional arguments.More than eight parameters is rare. It is arguably a poorly designed API, which would benefit from kwargs in the Python interface (and therefore use the full-featured complex dispatcher).
Given
the performance on Python 3.14 is as follows:
measured using