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Author SHA1 Message Date
Victor Stinner d9fd33a869
gh-112088: Run autoreconf in GHA check_generated_files (#112090)
The "Check if generated files are up to date" job of GitHub Actions
now runs the "autoreconf -ivf -Werror" command instead of the "make
regen-configure" command to avoid depending on the external quay.io
server.

Add Tools/build/regen-configure.sh script to regenerate the configure
with an Ubuntu container image. The
"quay.io/tiran/cpython_autoconf:271" container image
(https://github.com/tiran/cpython_autoconf) is no longer used.
2023-11-15 21:47:14 +01:00
Yilei Yang 45a36d5f56
gh-111374: Add a new PYTHON_FROZEN_MODULES env var, equivalent of `-X frozen_modules`. (#111411)
Adds a new PYTHON_FROZEN_MODULES env var to correspond with -X frozen_modules.

Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <hugovk@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-11-01 20:39:31 +00:00
Dino Viehland 05f2f0ac92
gh-90815: Add mimalloc memory allocator (#109914)
* Add mimalloc v2.12

Modified src/alloc.c to remove include of alloc-override.c and not
compile new handler.

Did not include the following files:

 - include/mimalloc-new-delete.h
 - include/mimalloc-override.h
 - src/alloc-override-osx.c
 - src/alloc-override.c
 - src/static.c
 - src/region.c

mimalloc is thread safe and shares a single heap across all runtimes,
therefore finalization and getting global allocated blocks across all
runtimes is different.

* mimalloc: minimal changes for use in Python:

 - remove debug spam for freeing large allocations
 - use same bytes (0xDD) for freed allocations in CPython and mimalloc
   This is important for the test_capi debug memory tests

* Don't export mimalloc symbol in libpython.
* Enable mimalloc as Python allocator option.
* Add mimalloc MIT license.
* Log mimalloc in Lib/test/pythoninfo.py.
* Document new mimalloc support.
* Use macro defs for exports as done in:
  https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/31164/

Co-authored-by: Sam Gross <colesbury@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Christian Heimes <christian@python.org>
Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <vstinner@python.org>
2023-10-30 15:43:11 +00:00
Łukasz Langa 84b7e9e3fa
gh-110722: Add PYTHON_PRESITE to import a module before site.py is run (#110769) 2023-10-14 23:32:57 +02:00
Nikita Sobolev 45cfabb842
gh-101100: Fix sphinx warnings in `usage/cmdline.rst` (#110841) 2023-10-14 08:05:46 +02:00
Ezio Melotti 718391f475
gh-110631: Fix reST indentation (#110724)
* Fix wrong indentation in the other dirs.

* Fix more wrong indentation.
2023-10-11 22:43:03 +02:00
Donghee Na 0362cbf908
gh-109595: Add -Xcpu_count=<n> cmdline for container users (#109667)
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Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <vstinner@python.org>
Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith [Google LLC] <greg@krypto.org>
2023-10-10 19:00:09 +09:00
Adam Turner 77e9aae383
Docs: Avoid the deprecated ``.. cmdoption::`` directive (#110292) 2023-10-03 17:38:12 +00:00
Victor Stinner 6ab6040054
gh-110276: No longer ignore PROFILE_TASK failure silently (#110295) 2023-10-03 18:43:23 +02:00
Steve Dower 1b3bc610fd
gh-83180: Made launcher treat shebang 'python' tags as low priority so that active virtual environments are preferred (GH-108101) 2023-10-02 12:22:55 +00:00
Adam Turner f16e81f368
GH-92584: Move installation schemes overview to sysconfig docs (#108018)
* Add new installation path functions subsection

* Add content from install/index to sysconfig

* Fix table

* Update note about installers

* Clean up the list of schemes, remove references to Distutils
2023-10-02 12:40:03 +02:00
Donghee Na 501939c9c1
gh-105323: Update readline module to detect apple editline variant (gh-108665) 2023-09-29 21:18:18 +09:00
Victor Stinner 3538930d87
gh-101100: Fix Sphinx warnings in Doc/using/configure.rst (#109931) 2023-09-27 02:01:48 +02:00
Victor Stinner b1e4f6e83e
gh-109276, gh-109508: Fix libregrtest stdout (#109903)
Remove replace_stdout(): call sys.stdout.reconfigure() instead of set
the error handler to backslashreplace.

display_header() logs an empty line and flush stdout.

Remove encoding workaround in display_header() since stdout error
handler is now set to backslashreplace earlier.
2023-09-26 21:34:50 +02:00
Victor Stinner 859618c8cd
gh-109566, regrtest: Add --fast-ci and --slow-ci options (#109570)
* Add --fast-ci and --slow-ci options to libregrtest:

  * --fast-ci uses a default timeout of 10 minutes and "-u all,-cpu"
    (skip slowest tests).
  * --slow-ci uses a default timeout of 20 minues and "-u all" (run
    all tests).

* regrtest header now lists test resources.
* Makefile changes:

  * "make test", "make hostrunnertest" and "make coverage-report" now
    use --fast-ci option and TESTTIMEOUT variable.
  * "make buildbottest" now uses "--slow-ci". Remove options which
    became redundant with "--slow-ci".
  * "make testall" and "make testuniversal" now use --slow-ci option
    and TESTTIMEOUT variable.
  * "make testall" now uses "find -exec rm ..." instead of
    "find ... -print|xargs rm ...", same as "make clean".

* GitHub Actions workflow:

  * Ubuntu and Address Sanitizer jobs now use "make test". Remove
    options which became redundant with "--fast-ci".
  * Windows jobs now use --fast-ci option.
  * Use -j0 to detect the number of CPUs.

* Set Makefile TESTTIMEOUT default to an empty string, since
  --slow-ci and --fast-ci use different default timeout. It's now
  accepted to pass "--timeout=" to regrtest: treated as not timeout.
* Tools/scripts/run_tests.py now uses --fast-ci option.
* Tools/buildbot/test.bat now uses --slow-ci option. Remove
  --timeout=1200 option, redundant with --slow-ci.
2023-09-26 17:22:50 +02:00
Serhiy Storchaka 92af0cc580
gh-109634: Use :samp: role (GH-109635) 2023-09-23 09:31:20 +03:00
Victor Stinner d41d2e69f6
gh-109054: Document configure variables (#109224) 2023-09-20 18:51:53 +02:00
partev 0b38ce440b
gh-109474: Update two Unix packaging URLs (#109307)
update packaging URLs

fix a broken URL for fedora RPM packaging guide and fix a URL redirect for Slackware packaging guide.
2023-09-16 10:46:09 +03:00
Brett Cannon e218e5022e
GH-83417: Allow `venv` to add a `.gitignore` file to environments via a new `scm_ignore_file` parameter (GH-108125)
This feature is off by default via code but on by default via the CLI. The `.gitignore` file contains `*` which causes the entire directory to be ignored.

Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <9087854+AA-Turner@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <hugovk@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-09-15 22:38:08 +00:00
Victor Stinner d7a27e527d
gh-107298: Document PyMODINIT_FUNC macro (#109236)
Document PyMODINIT_FUNC macro.

Remove links to PyAPI_FUNC() and PyAPI_DATA() macros since they are
not documented. These macros should only be used to define the Python
C API. They should not be used outside Python code base.
2023-09-14 14:56:43 +02:00
Victor Stinner db1ee6a19a
gh-108740: Fix "make regen-all" race condition (#108741)
Fix a race condition in "make regen-all". The deepfreeze.c source and
files generated by Argument Clinic are now generated or updated
before generating "global objects". Previously, some identifiers may
miss depending on the order in which these files were generated.

* "make regen-global-objects": Make sure that deepfreeze.c is
  generated and up to date, and always run "make clinic".
* "make clinic" no longer runs generate_global_objects.py script.
* "make regen-deepfreeze" now only updates deepfreeze.c (C file).
  It doesn't build deepfreeze.o (object) anymore.
* Remove misleading messages in "make regen-global-objects" and
  "make clinic". They are now outdated, these commands are now
  safe to use.
* Document generates files in Doc/using/configure.rst.

Co-authored-by: Erlend E. Aasland <erlend@python.org>
2023-09-06 20:09:21 +02:00
Victor Stinner a0773b89df
gh-108753: Enhance pystats (#108754)
Statistics gathering is now off by default. Use the "-X pystats"
command line option or set the new PYTHONSTATS environment variable
to 1 to turn statistics gathering on at Python startup.

Statistics are no longer dumped at exit if statistics gathering was
off or statistics have been cleared.

Changes:

* Add PYTHONSTATS environment variable.
* sys._stats_dump() now returns False if statistics are not dumped
  because they are all equal to zero.
* Add PyConfig._pystats member.
* Add tests on sys functions and on setting PyConfig._pystats to 1.
* Add Include/cpython/pystats.h and Include/internal/pycore_pystats.h
  header files.
* Rename '_py_stats' variable to '_Py_stats'.
* Exclude Include/cpython/pystats.h from the Py_LIMITED_API.
* Move pystats.h include from object.h to Python.h.
* Add _Py_StatsOn() and _Py_StatsOff() functions. Remove
  '_py_stats_struct' variable from the API: make it static in
  specialize.c.
* Document API in Include/pystats.h and Include/cpython/pystats.h.
* Complete pystats documentation in Doc/using/configure.rst.
* Don't write "all zeros" stats: if _stats_off() and _stats_clear()
  or _stats_dump() were called.
* _PyEval_Fini() now always call _Py_PrintSpecializationStats() which
  does nothing if stats are all zeros.

Co-authored-by: Michael Droettboom <mdboom@gmail.com>
2023-09-06 15:54:59 +00:00
Victor Stinner 13a00078b8
gh-108634: Py_TRACE_REFS uses a hash table (#108663)
Python built with "configure --with-trace-refs" (tracing references)
is now ABI compatible with Python release build and debug build.
Moreover, it now also supports the Limited API.

Change Py_TRACE_REFS build:

* Remove _PyObject_EXTRA_INIT macro.
* The PyObject structure no longer has two extra members (_ob_prev
  and _ob_next).
* Use a hash table (_Py_hashtable_t) to trace references (all
  objects): PyInterpreterState.object_state.refchain.
* Py_TRACE_REFS build is now ABI compatible with release build and
  debug build.
* Limited C API extensions can now be built with Py_TRACE_REFS:
  xxlimited, xxlimited_35, _testclinic_limited.
* No longer rename PyModule_Create2() and PyModule_FromDefAndSpec2()
  functions to PyModule_Create2TraceRefs() and
  PyModule_FromDefAndSpec2TraceRefs().
* _Py_PrintReferenceAddresses() is now called before
  finalize_interp_delete() which deletes the refchain hash table.
* test_tracemalloc find_trace() now also filters by size to ignore
  the memory allocated by _PyRefchain_Trace().

Test changes for Py_TRACE_REFS:

* Add test.support.Py_TRACE_REFS constant.
* Add test_sys.test_getobjects() to test sys.getobjects() function.
* test_exceptions skips test_recursion_normalizing_with_no_memory()
  and test_memory_error_in_PyErr_PrintEx() if Python is built with
  Py_TRACE_REFS.
* test_repl skips test_no_memory().
* test_capi skisp test_set_nomemory().
2023-08-31 18:33:34 +02:00
Victor Stinner e012cf771b
Document Python build requirements (#108646)
Co-authored-by: Erlend E. Aasland <erlend@python.org>
Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
2023-08-30 15:28:58 +02:00
xzmeng 88f1c5b454
Fix misc doc typos (#108592) 2023-08-29 00:14:21 +00:00
Sam Gross 4b32d4f49c
gh-108223: Document --disable-gil flag in configure (#108236) 2023-08-21 20:37:07 +00:00
Serhiy Storchaka f51f0466c0
gh-107298: Fix some references in the C API documentation (GH-108072) 2023-08-17 11:16:00 +03:00
Adam Turner e88eb3775e
GH-92584: Remove references to Distutils in configure.rst (#108043)
Remove references to Distutils in configure.rst
2023-08-16 23:13:05 +02:00
Adam Turner fbb7cbc0e9
GH-92584: Remove Installing Python Modules (Distutils version) (#108020) 2023-08-16 21:06:56 +00:00
Adam Turner 636ca313b2
GH-92584: Remove references to Distutils in ``PYTHONUSERBASE`` (#108040)
Remove references to Distutils in ``PYTHONUSERBASE``
2023-08-16 22:43:30 +02:00
Adam Turner 902864256c
GH-92584: Redirect macOS package installation to the PPUG (#108044) 2023-08-16 20:42:23 +00:00
Adam Turner 57fcf96e4f
GH-92584: Remove reference to Distutils in ``cx_Freeze``'s description (#108047)
Remove reference to Distutils in ``cx_Freeze``'s description
2023-08-16 22:23:12 +02:00
Serhiy Storchaka 4b9948617f
gh-106909: Use role :const: for referencing module constants (GH-106910) 2023-07-21 12:40:37 +03:00
Serhiy Storchaka d036db728e
gh-106892: Use roles :data: and :const: for referencing module variables (GH-106894) 2023-07-21 12:34:30 +03:00
Serhiy Storchaka fcc816dbff
gh-106919: Use role :c:macro: for referencing the C "constants" (GH-106920) 2023-07-21 10:52:07 +03:00
Terry Jan Reedy 04dfc6fa90
gh-106232: Make timeit doc command lines compatible with Windows. (#106296)
Command Prompt (CMD Shell) and older versions of PowerShell
require double quotes and single quotes inside the string.
This form also works on linux and macOS.
2023-06-30 22:34:31 -04:00
Victor Stinner 424049cc11
gh-105145: Remove old functions to config Python init (#105154)
Remove the following old functions to configure the Python
initialization, deprecated in Python 3.11:

* PySys_AddWarnOptionUnicode()
* PySys_AddWarnOption()
* PySys_AddXOption()
* PySys_HasWarnOptions()
* PySys_SetArgvEx()
* PySys_SetArgv()
* PySys_SetPath()
* Py_SetPath()
* Py_SetProgramName()
* Py_SetPythonHome()
* Py_SetStandardStreamEncoding()
* _Py_SetProgramFullPath()

Most of these functions are kept in the stable ABI, except:

* Py_SetStandardStreamEncoding()
* _Py_SetProgramFullPath()

Update Doc/extending/embedding.rst and Doc/extending/extending.rst to
use the new PyConfig API.

_testembed.c:

* check_stdio_details() now sets stdio_encoding and stdio_errors
  of PyConfig.
* Add definitions of functions removed from the API but kept in the
  stable ABI.
* test_init_from_config() and test_init_read_set() now use
  PyConfig_SetString() instead of PyConfig_SetBytesString().

Remove _Py_ClearStandardStreamEncoding() internal function.
2023-06-01 09:14:02 +02:00
Gregory Szorc 5360cb3d56
gh-101282: Apply BOLT optimizations to libpython for shared builds (#104709)
Apply BOLT optimizations to libpython for shared builds. Most of the C
code is in libpython so it is critical to apply BOLT there fully realize
BOLT benefits.

This change also reworks how BOLT instrumentation is applied. It
effectively removes the readelf based logic added in gh-101525 and
replaces it with a mechanism that saves a copy of the pre-bolt binary
and restores that copy when necessary. This allows us to perform BOLT
optimizations without having to manually delete the output binary to
force a new bolt run.

Also:
- add a clean-bolt target for purging BOLT files and hook that up to the
  clean target
- .gitignore BOLT related files

Before and after this refactor, `make` will no-op after a previous run.
Both versions should also share common make DAG deficiencies where
targets fail to trigger as often as they need to or can trigger
prematurely in certain scenarios. e.g. after this change you may need to
`rm profile-bolt-stamp` to force a BOLT run because there aren't
appropriate non-phony targets for BOLT's make target to depend on.

To make it easier to iterate on custom BOLT settings, the flags to pass
to instrumentation and application are now defined in configure and can
be overridden by passing BOLT_INSTRUMENT_FLAGS and BOLT_APPLY_FLAGS.
2023-05-22 13:45:20 +02:00
partev 06eeee97e3
Replace "OS X" with "macOS" (#104653) 2023-05-20 01:25:52 -07:00
Rafael Fontenelle 68ed2a2a3f
GH-103484: Fix redirected permanently URLs (#104001)
Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <hugovk@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Oleg Iarygin <dralife@yandex.ru>
2023-05-02 09:34:44 +03:00
partev c9134fb228
DOC: remove reference to OpenSolaris (#102671) 2023-04-25 10:45:18 +00:00
Christopher Chavez 014f131934
Change 'dependant' to 'dependent' (#103745)
The word 'dependent' is both an adjective and a noun. A 'dependant' is a British alternative spelling for the noun form. In idlelib.sidebar, 'OS-dependant' is an adjective and clearly wrong. In 'Using', 'dependant' as a noun would be acceptable in Britain, but we use American spellings in Python docs.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/spelling-variants-dependent-vs-dependant
2023-04-24 09:40:30 -04:00
Pradyun Gedam ece20dba12
gh-95299: Stop installing setuptools as a part of ensurepip and venv (#101039)
Remove the bundled setuptools wheel from ensurepip, and stop installing setuptools in environments created by venv.

Co-Authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <hugovk@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: C.A.M. Gerlach <CAM.Gerlach@Gerlach.CAM>
Co-authored-by: Oleg Iarygin <oleg@arhadthedev.net>
2023-04-17 23:43:34 -05:00
Furkan Onder d65ed693a8
GH-83893: Cross reference env. vars and -X command line options (GH-103414)
Co-authored-by: Erlend E. Aasland
2023-04-12 01:44:35 -07:00
Julien Palard 61b9ff35cb
gh-101100: Documenting --prefix and --exec-prefix. (GH-102695)
Co-authored-by: Erlend E. Aasland <erlend.aasland@protonmail.com>
2023-03-15 16:10:03 +01:00
Paul Watson 80abd62647
gh-102354: change python3 to python in docs examples (#102696) 2023-03-14 12:40:12 -06:00
Matthias Görgens eff9f43924
gh-96821: Add config option `--with-strict-overflow` (#96823)
Co-authored-by: C.A.M. Gerlach <CAM.Gerlach@Gerlach.CAM>
Co-authored-by: Erlend E. Aasland <erlend.aasland@protonmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <9087854+AA-Turner@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Shantanu <hauntsaninja@gmail.com>
2023-03-04 13:39:52 -08:00
Steve Dower eda60916bc
gh-101467: Correct py.exe handling of prefix matches and cases when only one runtime is installed (GH-101468) 2023-02-01 21:06:56 +00:00
socal-nerdtastic 666c0840dc
Fix trivial typo in shebang example (GH-101385)
The example was showing the current version, but should be pinned to 3.7 to match the example command.
2023-01-28 15:18:04 +02:00
Steve Dower 30753c37c6
gh-100247: Improve documentation for custom shebang commands in py.exe launcher (GH-101083) 2023-01-16 17:01:04 +00:00
Steve Dower 468c3bf798
gh-100247: Fix py.exe launcher not using entire shebang command for finding custom commands (GH-100944) 2023-01-13 11:49:01 +00:00
Zachary Ware 25590eb5de
gh-100540: Remove obsolete '--with-system-ffi' configure option (GH-100544)
It has had no effect on non-macOS platforms for a long time, and has had
the non-obvious effect of invoking `pkg_config` and not setting
`-DUSING_APPLE_OS_LIBFFI` on macOS since GH-22855.
2022-12-28 13:36:03 -06:00
Victor Stinner 5837e5f347
gh-100008: VS 2017 is required since Python 3.11 (#100045) 2022-12-06 14:35:32 +01:00
Victor Stinner 5ea052bb0c
gh-100008: Document Python build requirements (#100009)
Document also configure --without-freelists option added to Python
3.11.
2022-12-05 15:41:44 +01:00
Victor Stinner 9a7e9f9921
gh-99289: Add COMPILEALL_OPTS to Makefile (#99291)
Add COMPILEALL_OPTS variable in Makefile to override compileall
options (default: -j0) in "make install". Also merge the compileall
commands into a single command building PYC files for the all
optimization levels (0, 1, 2) at once.

Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>
2022-11-14 13:43:45 +01:00
Michael Droettboom 2844aa6a8e
Support comparing two sets of pystats (GH-98816)
This adds support for comparing pystats collected from two different builds.

- The `--json-output` can be used to load in a set of raw stats and output a
  JSON file.
- Two of these JSON files can be provided on the next run, and then comparative
  results between the two are output.
2022-11-04 10:15:54 +00:00
Steve Dower 88297e2a8a
gh-98692: Enable treating shebang lines as executables in py.exe launcher (GH-98732) 2022-10-31 21:05:50 +00:00
Erlend E. Aasland 723ebe76e7
gh-96143: Improve perf profiler docs (#96445) 2022-10-27 14:06:48 +01:00
Stanley 268129a74f
docs: Change links to label refs (#98454)
Co-authored-by: C.A.M. Gerlach <CAM.Gerlach@Gerlach.CAM>
2022-10-25 20:26:28 -07:00
Phil Elson 1a6bacb31f
[doc] Refresh the venv introduction documentation, and correct the statement about VIRTUAL_ENV (GH-98350)
Co-authored-by: C.A.M. Gerlach <CAM.Gerlach@Gerlach.CAM>
2022-10-19 15:49:34 +01:00
Hugo van Kemenade fa2d43e518
Docs: Fix backtick errors found by sphinx-lint (#97998)
Co-authored-by: Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com>
2022-10-06 18:01:30 -07:00
Xiao Chen 4875433682
Remove extra spaces in custom openSSL documentation. (#93568) 2022-10-06 17:42:08 -07:00
Ben Faulhaber a120b9f25d
gh-97754: Update doc for default location of per-user installs on Windows (GH-97756) 2022-10-04 17:04:41 +01:00
Serhiy Storchaka dd53b79de0
gh-96959: Update more HTTP links (GH-97536)
Use HTTPS for documents which are available by both HTTP and HTTPS
links, but there is no redirection from HTTP to HTTPS or vice versa.
2022-09-27 14:08:11 +03:00
Gregory P. Smith 34de67c094
gh-96512: Update int_max_str docs to say 3.11 (#96942)
It was unknown if it'd be before 3.11.0 when creating the original
changes.  It's in 3.11rc2, so 3.11 it is.
2022-09-19 16:43:11 -07:00
Dong-hee Na e47b96c44f
gh-89536: Use ThinLTO policy if possible (gh-96766) 2022-09-16 19:40:05 +09:00
Gregory P. Smith 511ca94520
gh-95778: CVE-2020-10735: Prevent DoS by very large int() (#96499)
Integer to and from text conversions via CPython's bignum `int` type is not safe against denial of service attacks due to malicious input. Very large input strings with hundred thousands of digits can consume several CPU seconds.

This PR comes fresh from a pile of work done in our private PSRT security response team repo.

Signed-off-by: Christian Heimes [Red Hat] <christian@python.org>
Tons-of-polishing-up-by: Gregory P. Smith [Google] <greg@krypto.org>
Reviews via the private PSRT repo via many others (see the NEWS entry in the PR).

<!-- gh-issue-number: gh-95778 -->
* Issue: gh-95778
<!-- /gh-issue-number -->

I wrote up [a one pager for the release managers](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KjuF_aXlzPUxTK4BMgezGJ2Pn7uevfX7g0_mvgHlL7Y/edit#). Much of that text wound up in the Issue. Backports PRs already exist. See the issue for links.
2022-09-02 09:35:08 -07:00
Pablo Galindo Salgado f49dd54b72
gh-96143: Add some comments and minor fixes missed in the original PR (#96433)
* gh-96132: Add some comments and minor fixes missed in the original PR

* Update Doc/using/cmdline.rst

Co-authored-by: Kumar Aditya <59607654+kumaraditya303@users.noreply.github.com>

Co-authored-by: Kumar Aditya <59607654+kumaraditya303@users.noreply.github.com>
2022-08-30 19:37:22 +01:00
Pablo Galindo Salgado 6d791a9736
gh-96143: Allow Linux perf profiler to see Python calls (GH-96123)
⚠️  ⚠️ Note for reviewers, hackers and fellow systems/low-level/compiler engineers ⚠️ ⚠️ 

If you have a lot of experience with this kind of shenanigans and want to improve the **first** version, **please make a PR against my branch** or **reach out by email** or **suggest code changes directly on GitHub**. 

If you have any **refinements or optimizations** please, wait until the first version is merged before starting hacking or proposing those so we can keep this PR productive.
2022-08-30 10:11:18 -07:00
Dong-hee Na 6ec57e7c5a
gh-90536: Fix link syntax to LLVM-BOLT repository (gh-96141) 2022-08-21 00:11:35 +09:00
Kevin Modzelewski 214eb2cce5
gh-90536: Add support for the BOLT post-link binary optimizer (gh-95908)
* Add support for the BOLT post-link binary optimizer

Using [bolt](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/tree/main/bolt)
provides a fairly large speedup without any code or functionality
changes. It provides roughly a 1% speedup on pyperformance, and a
4% improvement on the Pyston web macrobenchmarks.

It is gated behind an `--enable-bolt` configure arg because not all
toolchains and environments are supported. It has been tested on a
Linux x86_64 toolchain, using llvm-bolt built from the LLVM 14.0.6
sources (their binary distribution of this version did not include bolt).

Compared to [a previous attempt](https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/issues/224),
this commit uses bolt's preferred "instrumentation" approach, as well as adds some non-PIE
flags which enable much better optimizations from bolt.

The effects of this change are a bit more dependent on CPU microarchitecture
than other changes, since it optimizes i-cache behavior which seems
to be a bit more variable between architectures. The 1%/4% numbers
were collected on an Intel Skylake CPU, and on an AMD Zen 3 CPU I
got a slightly larger speedup (2%/4%), and on a c6i.xlarge EC2 instance
I got a slightly lower speedup (1%/3%).

The low speedup on pyperformance is not entirely unexpected, because
BOLT improves i-cache behavior, and the benchmarks in the pyperformance
suite are small and tend to fit in i-cache.

This change uses the existing pgo profiling task (`python -m test --pgo`),
though I was able to measure about a 1% macrobenchmark improvement by
using the macrobenchmarks as the training task. I personally think that
both the PGO and BOLT tasks should be updated to use macrobenchmarks,
but for the sake of splitting up the work this PR uses the existing pgo task.

* Simplify the build flags

* Add a NEWS entry

* Update Makefile.pre.in

Co-authored-by: Dong-hee Na <donghee.na92@gmail.com>

* Update configure.ac

Co-authored-by: Dong-hee Na <donghee.na92@gmail.com>

* Add myself to ACKS

* Add docs

* Other review comments

* fix tab/space issue

* Make it more clear that --enable-bolt is experimental

* Add link to bolt's github page

Co-authored-by: Dong-hee Na <donghee.na92@gmail.com>
2022-08-19 06:33:54 +09:00
Howie Zhao d25ff1f613
gh-95155: Update "Using Python on a Mac" documentation (GH-95284)
Co-authored-by: Łukasz Langa <lukasz@langa.pl>
2022-08-06 18:50:28 +02:00
Victor Stinner 398ed84dc4
gh-93744: Remove configure --with-cxx-main option (#95651)
Remove the "configure --with-cxx-main" build option: it didn't work
for many years. Remove the MAINCC variable from configure and
Makefile.

The MAINCC variable was added by the issue gh-42471: commit
0f48d98b74. Previously, --with-cxx-main
was named --with-cxx.

Keep CXX and LDCXXSHARED variables, even if they are no longer used
by Python build system.
2022-08-05 13:26:58 +02:00
fluesvamp c47d09a4ac
Remove unnecessary text from documentation. (GH-95670) 2022-08-04 21:18:05 +01:00
Serhiy Storchaka f79547a429
gh-91838: Use HTTPS links in docs for resources which redirect to HTTPS (GH-95527)
If an HTTP link is redirected to a same looking HTTPS link, the latter can
be used directly without changes in readability and behavior.
It protects from a men-in-the-middle attack.

This change does not affect Python examples.
2022-08-04 10:13:49 +03:00
Steve Dower 67840edb28
gh-94399: Restore PATH search behaviour of py.exe launcher for '/usr/bin/env' shebang lines (GH-95582) 2022-08-03 22:18:51 +01:00
Steve Dower d2c1a9c76c
gh-92219: Clarify that some options to the installer may break the install (GH-95548) 2022-08-02 00:57:46 +01:00
Christian Heimes f81a6c5fc7
gh-95415: Make availability directive consistent (GH-95416) 2022-07-29 16:42:09 +02:00
Christian Heimes a566912049
gh-85454: Remove distutils documentation (#95239)
Most places now refer to setuptools or link to setuptools documentation.
Some examples like zipapp need to be updated later.
2022-07-25 15:50:46 +02:00
Anthony Shaw b1924b1006
GH-95029: Describe Windows Store package isolation and redirection in more detail (GH-95030) 2022-07-21 01:01:23 +01:00
Ned Batchelder 3440d197a5
Docs: remove redundant "adverb-adjective" hyphens from compound modifiers (GH-94551)
Discussion: https://discuss.python.org/t/slight-grammar-fix-throughout-adverbs-dont-need-hyphen/17021
2022-07-05 11:16:10 +02:00
Oleg Iarygin f62ff97f31
gh-93851: Fix all broken links in Doc/ (GH-93853) 2022-06-21 20:55:18 +02:00
Matthias Köppe 61f24e7885
gh-90539: doc: Expand on what should not go into CFLAGS, LDFLAGS (#92754) 2022-06-20 15:58:02 +02:00
Éric 8aa9d40b00
gh-90300: split --help output into separate options (#30331)
Make --help output shorter and add new help options.

--help-env, --help-xoptions and --help-all command-line options are
added to complement --help.
2022-06-01 05:50:01 -04:00
Victor Stinner c7667a2d35
gh-93103: Enhance PyConfig.parser_debug documentation (#93186)
Document that -d option and PYTHONDEBUG env var require a debug
build of Python. Also mention them in the debug build documentation.
2022-05-24 23:23:01 +02:00
CAM Gerlach f1bbcba74f
gh-76773: Update docs mentioning no-longer-supported Windows versions & features (GH-92529) 2022-05-10 09:30:32 +03:00
Gregory P. Smith 6ed7c353b8
gh-88750: Remove the PYTHONTHREADDEBUG env var support. (#92509)
Remove the `PYTHONTHREADDEBUG` env var support.
Remove no-op dprintf() macro calls.
2022-05-09 16:03:46 -07:00
Julien Palard b77a95f44a
Doc: Update py2app link. (#91585)
See: https://mail.python.org/archives/list/docs@python.org/thread/KDVFGNGGUGGPVRZT7WZYHHWXCRS2GEN7/
2022-05-09 23:10:19 +02:00
slateny e3fa60b937
gh-86019: Add table for Windows installer options (GH-91809) 2022-05-09 17:40:51 +01:00
Victor Stinner ada8b6d1b1
gh-57684: Add -P cmdline option and PYTHONSAFEPATH env var (#31542)
Add the -P command line option and the PYTHONSAFEPATH environment
variable to not prepend a potentially unsafe path to sys.path.

* Add sys.flags.safe_path flag.
* Add PyConfig.safe_path member.
* Programs/_bootstrap_python.c uses config.safe_path=0.
* Update subprocess._optim_args_from_interpreter_flags() to handle
  the -P command line option.
* Modules/getpath.py sets safe_path to 1 if a "._pth" file is
  present.
2022-05-06 01:34:11 +02:00
vainaijr ed711290a0
gh-91998: 'WebAssemby' to 'WebAssembly' (#92040) 2022-05-01 20:24:41 -05:00
Victor Stinner 87c6cf9aa7
gh-89479: Export _Py_GetSpecializationStats() internal function (#92011)
When Python is built with "./configure --enable-pystats" (if the
Py_STATS macro is defined), the _Py_GetSpecializationStats() function
must be exported, since it's used by the _opcode extension which is
built as a shared library.
2022-04-28 14:02:45 +02:00
Christian Heimes 92c1037afc
gh-84461: Add --enable-wasm-pthreads and more file systems (GH-91820) 2022-04-23 14:59:33 +02:00
Victor Stinner 364ed94092
gh-89373: _Py_Dealloc() checks tp_dealloc exception (#32357)
If Python is built in debug mode, _Py_Dealloc() now ensures that the
tp_dealloc function leaves the current exception unchanged.
2022-04-21 23:04:01 +02:00
Dennis Sweeney 37965d2fb4
gh-78607: Replace __ltrace__ with __lltrace__ (GH-91619) 2022-04-16 18:57:00 -04:00
Inada Naoki 13b17e2a0a
gh-91156: Fix `encoding="locale"` in UTF-8 mode (GH-70056) 2022-04-14 16:00:35 +09:00
Christian Heimes c9844cb8aa
bpo-40280: Add --enable-wasm-dynamic-linking (GH-32253) 2022-04-04 19:31:31 +02:00
Christian Clauss 1ecfe3d5ae
Demonstrate `py --list` in the quickstart section of the Windows doc page (GH-29383) 2022-04-04 16:35:51 +01:00
Erlend Egeberg Aasland b36d222110
bpo-45847: Port _tkinter to PY_STDLIB_MOD (GH-31698)
- Remove ``--with-tclk-*`` options from `configure`
- Use pkg-config to detect `_tkinter` dependencies (Tcl/Tk, X11)
- Manual override via environment variables `TCLTK_CFLAGS` and `TCLTK_LIBS`
2022-03-31 03:19:08 -07:00
Steve Dower bad86a621a
bpo-46566: Add new py.exe launcher implementation (GH-32062) 2022-03-29 00:21:08 +01:00