From d14c9255bc705a24375ab8433963a6272491b075 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sweeneyde <sweeney.427@osu.edu>
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 04:53:17 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Add vectorcall for float()

---
 Objects/floatobject.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Objects/floatobject.c b/Objects/floatobject.c
index 0606f29ff5408d..ef61ae7aada4e3 100644
--- a/Objects/floatobject.c
+++ b/Objects/floatobject.c
@@ -1649,6 +1649,23 @@ float_subtype_new(PyTypeObject *type, PyObject *x)
     return newobj;
 }
 
+static PyObject *
+float_vectorcall(PyObject *type, PyObject * const*args,
+                 size_t nargsf, PyObject *kwnames)
+{
+    if (!_PyArg_NoKwnames("float", kwnames)) {
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
+    Py_ssize_t nargs = PyVectorcall_NARGS(nargsf);
+    if (!_PyArg_CheckPositional("float", nargs, 0, 1)) {
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
+    return float_new_impl((PyTypeObject *)type, args[0]);
+}
+
+
 /*[clinic input]
 float.__getnewargs__
 [clinic start generated code]*/
@@ -1937,6 +1954,7 @@ PyTypeObject PyFloat_Type = {
     0,                                          /* tp_init */
     0,                                          /* tp_alloc */
     float_new,                                  /* tp_new */
+    .tp_vectorcall = (vectorcallfunc)float_vectorcall,
 };
 
 int

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---
 .../Core and Builtins/2020-09-28-08-58-28.bpo-41873.VzEDhA.rst   | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-09-28-08-58-28.bpo-41873.VzEDhA.rst

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-09-28-08-58-28.bpo-41873.VzEDhA.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-09-28-08-58-28.bpo-41873.VzEDhA.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..ee2636704c2992
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-09-28-08-58-28.bpo-41873.VzEDhA.rst	
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Calls to ``float()`` are now faster due to the ``vectorcall`` calling convention. Patch by Dennis Sweeney.
\ No newline at end of file

From 7c9385858858cf9e45ecf46e5fedbaf2cad0f9ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sweeneyde <sweeney.427@osu.edu>
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 05:24:58 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Fix zero-argument case

---
 Lib/test/test_float.py | 3 +++
 Objects/floatobject.c  | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_float.py b/Lib/test/test_float.py
index 9651281e24edbe..99c81f0b72a5a3 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_float.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_float.py
@@ -64,6 +64,9 @@ def test_float(self):
         # See bpo-34087
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, float, '\u3053\u3093\u306b\u3061\u306f')
 
+    def test_noargs(self):
+        self.assertEqual(float(), 0.0)
+
     def test_underscores(self):
         for lit in VALID_UNDERSCORE_LITERALS:
             if not any(ch in lit for ch in 'jJxXoObB'):
diff --git a/Objects/floatobject.c b/Objects/floatobject.c
index ef61ae7aada4e3..d0af0ea1a98257 100644
--- a/Objects/floatobject.c
+++ b/Objects/floatobject.c
@@ -1662,7 +1662,8 @@ float_vectorcall(PyObject *type, PyObject * const*args,
         return NULL;
     }
 
-    return float_new_impl((PyTypeObject *)type, args[0]);
+    PyObject *x = nargs >= 1 ? args[0] : _PyLong_Zero;
+    return float_new_impl((PyTypeObject *)type, x);
 }