diff --git a/src/main/java/net/starlark/java/eval/BuiltinFunction.java b/src/main/java/net/starlark/java/eval/BuiltinFunction.java
index aab7a8d6ea2f89..80f733c6f9a8a5 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/starlark/java/eval/BuiltinFunction.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/starlark/java/eval/BuiltinFunction.java
@@ -156,6 +156,16 @@ private Object[] getArgumentVector(
 
     ParamDescriptor[] parameters = desc.getParameters();
 
+    // Fast case: reuse positional as Java argument vector
+    // StringModule methods, which are treated specially below, will never match this case since
+    // their "self" parameter is restricted to String and thus
+    // getPositionalsCanBeJavaArgumentVector() is false.
+    if (desc.getPositionalsCanBeJavaArgumentVector()
+        && positional.length == parameters.length
+        && named.length == 0) {
+      return positional;
+    }
+
     // Allocate argument vector.
     int n = parameters.length;
     if (desc.acceptsExtraArgs()) {
diff --git a/src/main/java/net/starlark/java/eval/MethodDescriptor.java b/src/main/java/net/starlark/java/eval/MethodDescriptor.java
index 53c4f5265dbceb..b89f4c7b4a1d28 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/starlark/java/eval/MethodDescriptor.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/starlark/java/eval/MethodDescriptor.java
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ final class MethodDescriptor {
   private final boolean allowReturnNones;
   private final boolean useStarlarkThread;
   private final boolean useStarlarkSemantics;
+  private final boolean positionalsCanBeJavaArgumentVector;
 
   private enum HowToHandleReturn {
     NULL_TO_NONE, // any Starlark value; null -> None
@@ -100,6 +101,20 @@ private MethodDescriptor(
     } else {
       howToHandleReturn = HowToHandleReturn.FROM_JAVA;
     }
+
+    this.positionalsCanBeJavaArgumentVector =
+        !extraKeywords
+            && !extraPositionals
+            && !useStarlarkSemantics
+            && !useStarlarkThread
+            && Arrays.stream(parameters)
+                .allMatch(MethodDescriptor::paramCanBeUsedAsPositionalWithoutChecks);
+  }
+
+  private static boolean paramCanBeUsedAsPositionalWithoutChecks(ParamDescriptor param) {
+    return param.isPositional()
+        && param.disabledByFlag() == null
+        && param.getAllowedClasses() == null;
   }
 
   /** Returns the StarlarkMethod annotation corresponding to this method. */
@@ -287,4 +302,12 @@ String getDoc() {
   boolean isSelfCall() {
     return selfCall;
   }
+
+  /**
+   * Returns true if positional arguments can be used as a Java method call argument vector without
+   * further checks when parameter count matches.
+   */
+  boolean getPositionalsCanBeJavaArgumentVector() {
+    return positionalsCanBeJavaArgumentVector;
+  }
 }
diff --git a/src/test/java/net/starlark/java/eval/MethodLibraryTest.java b/src/test/java/net/starlark/java/eval/MethodLibraryTest.java
index 0e76b265fe7a48..f2204aee53676e 100644
--- a/src/test/java/net/starlark/java/eval/MethodLibraryTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/net/starlark/java/eval/MethodLibraryTest.java
@@ -22,7 +22,9 @@
 import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableCollection;
 import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
 import java.util.List;
+import net.starlark.java.annot.Param;
 import net.starlark.java.annot.StarlarkBuiltin;
+import net.starlark.java.annot.StarlarkMethod;
 import org.junit.Test;
 import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
 import org.junit.runners.JUnit4;
@@ -772,6 +774,29 @@ ev.new Scenario()
             "','.join(elements=['foo', 'bar'])");
   }
 
+  @StarlarkBuiltin(name = "named_only", doc = "")
+  static final class NamedOnly implements StarlarkValue {
+    @StarlarkMethod(
+        name = "foo",
+        documented = false,
+        parameters = {
+          @Param(name = "a"),
+          @Param(name = "b", named = true, defaultValue = "None", positional = false),
+        })
+    public Object foo(Object a, Object b) {
+      return a;
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testNamedOnlyArgument() throws Exception {
+    ev.new Scenario()
+        .update("named_only", new NamedOnly())
+        .testIfErrorContains(
+            "foo() accepts no more than 1 positional argument but got 2",
+            "named_only.foo([1, 2, 3], int)");
+  }
+
   @Test
   public void testStringJoinRequiresStrings() throws Exception {
     ev.new Scenario()
diff --git a/src/test/java/net/starlark/java/eval/testdata/bench_call.star b/src/test/java/net/starlark/java/eval/testdata/bench_call.star
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..5c0661947868de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/java/net/starlark/java/eval/testdata/bench_call.star
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+def bench_call_type(b):
+    for _ in range(b.n):
+        type(1)
+
+def bench_call_list_append(b):
+    for _ in range(b.n):
+        [].append("foo")
+
+def bench_call_dict_get(b):
+    d = {"foo": "bar"}
+    for _ in range(b.n):
+        d.get("baz")
+
+def bench_call_dict_get_none(b):
+    d = {"foo": "bar"}
+    for _ in range(b.n):
+        d.get("baz", None)
+
+def bench_call_bool(b):
+    for _ in range(b.n):
+        bool()