* FOR_ITER now pushes either the iterator and NULL or leaves the iterable and pushes tagged zero
* NEXT_ITER uses the tagged int as the index into the sequence or, if TOS is NULL, iterates as before.
Optimize `LOAD_FAST` opcodes into faster versions that load borrowed references onto the operand stack when we can prove that the lifetime of the local outlives the lifetime of the temporary that is loaded onto the stack.
* Move _Py_VISIT_STACKREF() from pycore_gc.h to pycore_stackref.h.
* Remove pycore_interpframe.h include from pycore_genobject.h.
* Remove now useless includes from C files.
* Add pycore_interpframe_structs.h to Makefile.pre.in and
pythoncore.vcxproj.
This makes more operations on frame objects thread-safe in the free
threaded build, which fixes some data races that occurred when passing
exceptions between threads.
However, accessing local variables from another thread while its running
is still not thread-safe and may crash the interpreter.
* Replace uses of `PyCell_GET` and `PyCell_SET`. These macros are not
safe to use in the free-threaded build. Use `PyCell_GetRef()` and
`PyCell_SetTakeRef()` instead.
* Since `PyCell_GetRef()` returns a strong rather than borrowed ref, some
code restructuring was required, e.g. `frame_get_var()` returns a strong
ref now.
* Add critical sections to `PyCell_GET` and `PyCell_SET`.
* Move critical_section.h earlier in the Python.h file.
* Add `PyCell_GET` to the free-threading howto table of APIs that return
borrowed refs.
* Add additional unit tests for free-threading.
Each thread specializes a thread-local copy of the bytecode, created on the first RESUME, in free-threaded builds. All copies of the bytecode for a code object are stored in the co_tlbc array on the code object. Threads reserve a globally unique index identifying its copy of the bytecode in all co_tlbc arrays at thread creation and release the index at thread destruction. The first entry in every co_tlbc array always points to the "main" copy of the bytecode that is stored at the end of the code object. This ensures that no bytecode is copied for programs that do not use threads.
Thread-local bytecode can be disabled at runtime by providing either -X tlbc=0 or PYTHON_TLBC=0. Disabling thread-local bytecode also disables specialization.
Concurrent modifications to the bytecode made by the specializing interpreter and instrumentation use atomics, with specialization taking care not to overwrite an instruction that was instrumented concurrently.
This replaces `_PyEval_BuiltinsFromGlobals` with
`_PyDict_LoadBuiltinsFromGlobals`, which returns a new reference
instead of a borrowed reference. Internally, the new function uses
per-thread reference counting when possible to avoid contention on the
refcount fields on the builtins module.
Use a `_PyStackRef` and defer the reference to `f_funcobj` when
possible. This avoids some reference count contention in the common case
of executing the same code object from multiple threads concurrently in
the free-threaded build.
Use a `_PyStackRef` and defer the reference to `f_executable` when
possible. This avoids some reference count contention in the common case
of executing the same code object from multiple threads concurrently in
the free-threaded build.
This PR sets up tagged pointers for CPython.
The general idea is to create a separate struct _PyStackRef for everything on the evaluation stack to store the bits. This forces the C compiler to warn us if we try to cast things or pull things out of the struct directly.
Only for free threading: We tag the low bit if something is deferred - that means we skip incref and decref operations on it. This behavior may change in the future if Mark's plans to defer all objects in the interpreter loop pans out.
This implies a strict stack reference discipline is required. ALL incref and decref operations on stackrefs must use the stackref variants. It is unsafe to untag something then do normal incref/decref ops on it.
The new incref and decref variants are called dup and close. They mimic a "handle" API operating on these stackrefs.
Please read Include/internal/pycore_stackref.h for more information!
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Co-authored-by: Mark Shannon <9448417+markshannon@users.noreply.github.com>
* Add docs for new APIs
* Add soft-deprecation notices
* Add What's New porting entries
* Update comments referencing `PyFrame_LocalsToFast()` to mention the proxy instead
* Other related cleanups found when looking for refs to the deprecated APIs
Mark Shannon