* The lexer, which include the actual lexeme producing logic, goes into
the `lexer` directory.
* The wrappers, one wrapper per input mode (file, string, utf-8, and
readline), go into the `tokenizer` directory and include logic for
creating a lexer instance and managing the buffer for different modes.
---------
Co-authored-by: Pablo Galindo <pablogsal@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: blurb-it[bot] <43283697+blurb-it[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
"make regen-pegen" now creates a temporary file called "parser.c.new"
instead of "parser.new.c". Previously, if "make clinic" was run in
parallel with "make regen-all", clinic may try but fail to open
"parser.new.c" if the temporay file was removed in the meanwhile.
* _add_python_opts() now handles cross compilation and HOSTRUNNER.
* display_header() now tells if Python is cross-compiled, display
HOSTRUNNER, and get the host platform.
* Remove Tools/scripts/run_tests.py script.
* Remove "make hostrunnertest": use "make buildbottest"
or "make test" instead.
Split test_gdb.py file into a test_gdb package made of multiple
tests, so tests can now be run in parallel.
* Create Lib/test/test_gdb/ directory.
* Split test_gdb.py into multiple files in Lib/test/test_gdb/
directory.
* Move Lib/test/gdb_sample.py to Lib/test/test_gdb/ directory.
Update get_sample_script(): use __file__ to locate gdb_sample.py.
* Move gdb_has_frame_select() and HAS_PYUP_PYDOWN to test_misc.py.
* Explicitly skip test_gdb on Windows. Previously, test_gdb was
skipped even if gdb was available because of
gdb_has_frame_select().
* 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.
LTO optimization is nice to make Python faster, but _freeze_module
and _testembed performance is not important. Using LTO to build these
two programs make a whole Python build way slower, especially
combined with a sanitizer (like ASAN).
PyMutex is a one byte lock with fast, inlineable lock and unlock functions for the common uncontended case. The design is based on WebKit's WTF::Lock.
PyMutex is built using the _PyParkingLot APIs, which provides a cross-platform futex-like API (based on WebKit's WTF::ParkingLot). This internal API will be used for building other synchronization primitives used to implement PEP 703, such as one-time initialization and events.
This also includes tests and a mini benchmark in Tools/lockbench/lockbench.py to compare with the existing PyThread_type_lock.
Uncontended acquisition + release:
* Linux (x86-64): PyMutex: 11 ns, PyThread_type_lock: 44 ns
* macOS (arm64): PyMutex: 13 ns, PyThread_type_lock: 18 ns
* Windows (x86-64): PyMutex: 13 ns, PyThread_type_lock: 38 ns
PR Overview:
The primary purpose of this PR is to implement PyMutex, but there are a number of support pieces (described below).
* PyMutex: A 1-byte lock that doesn't require memory allocation to initialize and is generally faster than the existing PyThread_type_lock. The API is internal only for now.
* _PyParking_Lot: A futex-like API based on the API of the same name in WebKit. Used to implement PyMutex.
* _PyRawMutex: A word sized lock used to implement _PyParking_Lot.
* PyEvent: A one time event. This was used a bunch in the "nogil" fork and is useful for testing the PyMutex implementation, so I've included it as part of the PR.
* pycore_llist.h: Defines common operations on doubly-linked list. Not strictly necessary (could do the list operations manually), but they come up frequently in the "nogil" fork. ( Similar to https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?queue)
---------
Co-authored-by: Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently@gmail.com>
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>
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>
This adds a new header that provides atomic operations on common data
types. The intention is that this will be exposed through Python.h,
although that is not the case yet. The only immediate use is in
the test file.
Co-authored-by: Sam Gross <colesbury@gmail.com>
Remove these private functions from the public C API:
* _PyRun_AnyFileObject()
* _PyRun_InteractiveLoopObject()
* _PyRun_SimpleFileObject()
* _Py_SourceAsString()
Move them to the internal C API: add a new pycore_pythonrun.h header
file. No longer export these functions.
Remove the private _Py_Identifier type and related private functions
from the public C API:
* _PyObject_GetAttrId()
* _PyObject_LookupSpecialId()
* _PyObject_SetAttrId()
* _PyType_LookupId()
* _Py_IDENTIFIER()
* _Py_static_string()
* _Py_static_string_init()
Move them to the internal C API: add a new pycore_identifier.h header
file. No longer export these functions.
* Move test_cppext to its own directory
* Rename setup_testcppext.py to setup.py
* Rename _testcppext.cpp to extension.cpp
* The source (extension.cpp) is now also copied by the test.
* Move Python scripts related to test_module to this new directory:
good_getattr.py and bad_getattrX.py scripts.
* Move Lib/test/test_module.py to Lib/test/test_module/__init__.py.
* Instead of calling get_identifiers_and_strings(), extract identifiers and strings from pycore_global_strings.h.
* Avoid ast.literal_eval(), it's very slow.
The _xxsubinterpreters module should not rely on internal API. Some of the functions it uses were recently moved there however. Here we move them back (and expose them properly).
Move the private _PyInterpreterID C API to the internal C API: add a
new pycore_interp_id.h header file.
Remove Include/interpreteridobject.h and
Include/cpython/interpreteridobject.h header files.
in the case of an empty FRAMEWORKALTINSTALLLAST, this patch prevents leaving
an astray linebreak and two tabs in the resulting Makefile.
Before change:
```
.PHONY: commoninstall
commoninstall: check-clean-src \
altbininstall libinstall inclinstall libainstall \
sharedinstall altmaninstall \
```
After change (with empty FRAMEWORKALTINSTALLLAST):
```
.PHONY: commoninstall
commoninstall: check-clean-src \
altbininstall libinstall inclinstall libainstall \
sharedinstall altmaninstall
```
The Tier 2 opcode _IS_ITER_EXHAUSTED_LIST (and _TUPLE)
didn't set it->it_seq to NULL, causing a subtle bug
that resulted in test_exhausted_iterator in list_tests.py
to fail when running all tests with -Xuops.
The bug was introduced in gh-106696.
Added this as an explicit test.
Also fixed the dependencies for ceval.o -- it depends on executor_cases.c.h.
When running 'make regen-cases' just to check whether anything changed,
it's annoying that even if nothing changes, the output files are touched,
causing an expensiv rebuild of _bootstrap_python and anything it creates.
So use consistently for all output files.
- Tweak uops debugging output
- Fix the bug from gh-106290
- Rename `SET_IP` to `SAVE_IP` (per https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/issues/558)
- Add a `SAVE_IP` uop at the start of the trace (ditto)
- Allow `unbound_local_error`; this gives us uops for `LOAD_FAST_CHECK`, `LOAD_CLOSURE`, and `DELETE_FAST`
- Longer traces
- Support `STORE_FAST_LOAD_FAST`, `STORE_FAST_STORE_FAST`
- Add deps on pycore_uops.h to Makefile(.pre.in)
Remove the following functions from the C API, move them to the internal C
API: add a new pycore_modsupport.h internal header file:
* PyModule_CreateInitialized()
* _PyArg_NoKwnames()
* _Py_VaBuildStack()
No longer export these functions.
* Remove private _PyTraceMalloc C API functions: move them to the
internal C API.
* Don't export most of these functions anymore, but still export
_PyTraceMalloc_GetTraceback() used by tests.
* Rename Include/tracemalloc.h to Include/cpython/tracemalloc.h
Remove the "cpython/pytime.h" header file: it only contained private
functions. Move functions to the internal pycore_time.h header file.
Move tests from _testcapi to _testinternalcapi. Rename also test
methods to have the same name than tested C functions.
No longer export these functions:
* _PyTime_Add()
* _PyTime_As100Nanoseconds()
* _PyTime_FromMicrosecondsClamp()
* _PyTime_FromTimespec()
* _PyTime_FromTimeval()
* _PyTime_GetPerfCounterWithInfo()
* _PyTime_MulDiv()
Remove the following private functions of the C API:
* _PyCodecInfo_GetIncrementalDecoder()
* _PyCodecInfo_GetIncrementalEncoder()
* _PyCodec_DecodeText()
* _PyCodec_EncodeText()
* _PyCodec_Forget()
* _PyCodec_Lookup()
* _PyCodec_LookupTextEncoding()
Move these functions to a new pycore_codecs.h internal header file.
These functions are no longer exported.
Added a new, experimental, tracing optimizer and interpreter (a.k.a. "tier 2"). This currently pessimizes, so don't use yet -- this is infrastructure so we can experiment with optimizing passes. To enable it, pass ``-Xuops`` or set ``PYTHONUOPS=1``. To get debug output, set ``PYTHONUOPSDEBUG=N`` where ``N`` is a debug level (0-4, where 0 is no debug output and 4 is excessively verbose).
All of this code is likely to change dramatically before the 3.13 feature freeze. But this is a first step.
This ensures that `commoninstall` is completed before `bininstall` is
started when parallel builds are used (`make -j install`), and so the
`python3` symlink is only installed after all standard library modules
are installed.
Co-authored-by: Zachary Ware <zachary.ware@gmail.com>
The _xxsubinterpreters module was meant to only use public API. Some internal C-API usage snuck in over the last few years (e.g. gh-28969). This fixes that.
Remove functions in the C API:
* PyEval_AcquireLock()
* PyEval_ReleaseLock()
* PyEval_InitThreads()
* PyEval_ThreadsInitialized()
But keep these functions in the stable ABI.
Mention "make regen-limited-abi" in "make regen-all".
* Remove the Lib/test/imghdrdata/ directory.
* Copy 5 pictures (gif, png, ppm, pgm, xbm) from removed
Lib/test/imghdrdata/ to a new Lib/test/tkinterdata/ directory.
* Update Sphinx from 4.5 to 6.2 in Doc/requirements.txt.
* socket_helper.transient_internet() no longer imports nntplib to
catch nntplib.NNTPTemporaryError.
* ssltests.py no longer runs test_nntplib.
* "make quicktest" no longer runs test_nntplib.
* WASM: remove nntplib from OMIT_NETWORKING_FILES.
* Remove mentions to nntplib in the email documentation.
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.
This implements PEP 695, Type Parameter Syntax. It adds support for:
- Generic functions (def func[T](): ...)
- Generic classes (class X[T](): ...)
- Type aliases (type X = ...)
- New scoping when the new syntax is used within a class body
- Compiler and interpreter changes to support the new syntax and scoping rules
Co-authored-by: Marc Mueller <30130371+cdce8p@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Eric Traut <eric@traut.com>
Co-authored-by: Larry Hastings <larry@hastings.org>
Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood <Alex.Waygood@Gmail.com>
By convention make targets that don't refer to a file have a dependency
on the fake .PHONY target/file. This ensures that these targets are
always evaluated because there is no rule to create a .PHONY file
and that will force make to think the rule is out of date and needs
to be rebuilt.
This commit consistently associates virtual targets with .PHONY by
declaring the .PHONY dependency immediately above the make rule. This
should avoid race conditions and avoidable rebuilds across multiple make
invocations.
Replaces our built-in SHA3 implementation with a verified one from the HACL* project.
This implementation is used when OpenSSL does not provide SHA3 or is not present.
3.11 shiped with a very slow tiny sha3 implementation to get off of the <=3.10 reference implementation that wound up having serious bugs. This brings us back to a reasonably performing built-in implementation consistent with what we've just replaced our other guaranteed available standard hash algorithms with: code from the HACL* project.
---------
Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>
Deep-frozen code objects are cannot be shared (currently) by
interpreters, due to how adaptive specialization can modify the
bytecodes. We work around this by only using the deep-frozen objects in
the main interpreter. This does incur a performance penalty for
subinterpreters, which we may be able to resolve later.
This avoids conflicting with the shebang of the called scripts as well
as avoiding hard errors on platforms where the called script runs a
failing unchecked command in the usual course of checking since
`SHELL=/bin/sh -e` as of a90863c.
Fixes gh-103776.
* The majority of the monitoring code is in instrumentation.c
* The new instrumentation bytecodes are in bytecodes.c
* legacy_tracing.c adapts the new API to the old sys.setrace and sys.setprofile APIs
Set `SHELL = /bin/sh -e` to ensure that complex recipes fail on the first error rather than incorrectly reporting success.
Co-authored-by: Zachary Ware <zach@python.org>
The function is like Py_AtExit() but for a single interpreter. This is a companion to the atexit module's register() function, taking a C callback instead of a Python one.
We also update the _xxinterpchannels module to use _Py_AtExit(), which is the motivating case. (This is inspired by pain points felt while working on gh-101660.)
The essentially eliminates the global variable, with the associated benefits. This is also a precursor to isolating this bit of state to PyInterpreterState.
Folks that currently read _Py_RefTotal directly would have to start using _Py_GetGlobalRefTotal() instead.
https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/102304
This behavior is optional, because in some extreme cases it
may just make debugging harder. The tool defaults it to off,
but it is on in Makefile.pre.in.
Also note that this makes diffs to generated_cases.c.h noisier,
since whenever you insert or delete a line in bytecodes.c,
all subsequent #line directives will change.
This will keep us from adding new unsupported (i.e. non-const) C global variables, which would break interpreter isolation.
FYI, historically it is very uncommon for new global variables to get added. Furthermore, it is rare for new code to break the c-analyzer. So the check should almost always pass unnoticed.
Note that I've removed test_check_c_globals. A test wasn't a great fit conceptually and was super slow on debug builds. A CI check is a better fit.
This also resolves gh-100237.
https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/81057
This merges their code. They're backed by the same single HACL* static library, having them be a single module simplifies maintenance.
This should unbreak the wasm enscripten builds that currently fail due to linking in --whole-archive mode and the HACL* library appearing twice.
Long unnoticed error fixed: _sha512.SHA384Type was doubly assigned and was actually SHA512Type. Nobody depends on those internal names.
Also rename LIBHACL_ make vars to LIBHACL_SHA2_ in preperation for other future HACL things.
This builds HACL* as a library in one place.
A followup to #101707 which broke some WASM builds. This fixes 2/4 of them, but the enscripten toolchain in the others don't deduplicate linker arguments and error out. A follow-on PR will address those.
Replace the builtin hashlib implementations of SHA2-384 and SHA2-512
originally from LibTomCrypt with formally verified, side-channel resistant
code from the [HACL*](https://github.com/hacl-star/hacl-star/) project.
The builtins remain a fallback only used when OpenSSL does not provide them.
* Write output and metadata in a single run
This halves the time to run the cases generator
(most of the time goes into parsing the input).
* Declare or define opcode metadata based on NEED_OPCODE_TABLES
* Use generated metadata for stack_effect()
* compile.o depends on opcode_metadata.h
* Return -1 from _PyOpcode_num_popped/pushed for unknown opcode
Fix creating install directories in `make sharedinstall` if they exist already outside `DESTDIR`. The previous make rules assumed that the directories would be created via a dependency on a rule for `$(DESTSHARED)` that did not fire if the directory did exist outside `$(DESTDIR)`.
While technically `$(DESTDIR)` could be prepended to the rule name, moving the rules for creating directories straight into the `sharedinstall` rule seems to fit the common practices better. Since the rule explicitly checks whether the individual directories exist anyway, there seems to be no reason to rely on make determining that implicitly as well.
replacing hashlib primitives (for the non-OpenSSL case) with verified implementations from HACL*. This is the first PR in the series, and focuses specifically on SHA2-256 and SHA2-224.
This PR imports Hacl_Streaming_SHA2 into the Python tree. This is the HACL* implementation of SHA2, which combines a core implementation of SHA2 along with a layer of buffer management that allows updating the digest with any number of bytes. This supersedes the previous implementation in the tree.
@franziskuskiefer was kind enough to benchmark the changes: in addition to being verified (thus providing significant safety and security improvements), this implementation also provides a sizeable performance boost!
```
---------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark Time CPU Iterations
---------------------------------------------------------------
Sha2_256_Streaming 3163 ns 3160 ns 219353 // this PR
LibTomCrypt_Sha2_256 5057 ns 5056 ns 136234 // library used by Python currently
```
The changes in this PR are as follows:
- import the subset of HACL* that covers SHA2-256/224 into `Modules/_hacl`
- rewire sha256module.c to use the HACL* implementation
Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith [Google LLC] <greg@krypto.org>
Co-authored-by: Erlend E. Aasland <erlend.aasland@protonmail.com>
(These aren't used yet, but may be coming soon,
and it's easier to keep this tool the same between branches.)
Added a sanity check for all this to compile.c.
Co-authored-by: Irit Katriel <iritkatriel@yahoo.com>
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>
The global allocators were stored in 3 static global variables: _PyMem_Raw, _PyMem, and _PyObject. State for the "small block" allocator was stored in another 13. That makes a total of 16 global variables. We are moving all 16 to the _PyRuntimeState struct as part of the work for gh-81057. (If PEP 684 is accepted then we will follow up by moving them all to PyInterpreterState.)
https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/81057
We do the following:
* move the generated _PyUnicode_InitStaticStrings() to its own file
* move the generated _PyStaticObjects_CheckRefcnt() to its own file
* include pycore_global_objects.h in extension modules instead of pycore_runtime_init.h
These changes help us avoid including things that aren't needed.
https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/90868
Remove the distutils package. It was deprecated in Python 3.10 by PEP
632 "Deprecate distutils module". For projects still using distutils
and cannot be updated to something else, the setuptools project can
be installed: it still provides distutils.
* Remove Lib/distutils/ directory
* Remove test_distutils
* Remove references to distutils
* Skip test_check_c_globals and test_peg_generator since they use
distutils
This got introduced in commit 5884449539
to determine if readline is already linked against curses or tinfo in
the setup.py, which is no longer present.
The switch cases (really TARGET(opcode) macros) have been moved from ceval.c to generated_cases.c.h. That file is generated from instruction definitions in bytecodes.c (which impersonates a C file so the C code it contains can be edited without custom support in e.g. VS Code).
The code generator lives in Tools/cases_generator (it has a README.md explaining how it works). The DSL used to describe the instructions is a work in progress, described in https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/blob/main/3.12/interpreter_definition.md.
This is surely a work-in-progress. An easy next step could be auto-generating super-instructions.
**IMPORTANT: Merge Conflicts**
If you get a merge conflict for instruction implementations in ceval.c, your best bet is to port your changes to bytecodes.c. That file looks almost the same as the original cases, except instead of `TARGET(NAME)` it uses `inst(NAME)`, and the trailing `DISPATCH()` call is omitted (the code generator adds it automatically).
The test failed on a buildbot because the pointer was only 7 hex characters. To be safe,
I bumped it down to 3: 4 in case we have 32-bit platforms, and 3 in case the pointer is very small.
Relevant tests moved from test_exceptions to test_traceback to be able to
compare both implementations.
Co-authored-by: Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick <cfbolz@gmx.de>
⚠️⚠️ 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.
- support EMSDK tot-upstream and git releases
- allow WASM assents for wasm64-emscripten and WASI. This makes single file distributions on WASI easier.
- decouple WASM assets from browser builds
* 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>
We only statically initialize for core code and builtin modules. Extension modules still create
the tuple at runtime. We'll solve that part of interpreter isolation separately.
This change includes generated code. The non-generated changes are in:
* Tools/clinic/clinic.py
* Python/getargs.c
* Include/cpython/modsupport.h
* Makefile.pre.in (re-generate global strings after running clinic)
* very minor tweaks to Modules/_codecsmodule.c and Python/Python-tokenize.c
All other changes are generated code (clinic, global strings).
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.
Filipe Laíns
Victor Stinner
Lysandros Nikolaou
Nikita Sobolev
Eric Snow
Sam Gross
Mark Shannon
Serhiy Storchaka
Irit Katriel
Ken Jin
Guido van Rossum
Erlend E. Aasland
Moritz Neeb
Brandt Bucher
Jason R. Coombs
Jeffery To
Erlend E. Aasland
Jonathan Protzenko
Gregory Szorc
Jelle Zijlstra
Carl Meyer
Zachary Ware
Dong-hee Na
Michał Górny
Jacob Bower
Gregory P. Smith
Kai Zhang
Christian Heimes
Miro Hrončok
serge-sans-paille
Brett Cannon
Pablo Galindo Salgado
Łukasz Langa
Skip Montanaro
Kevin Modzelewski