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Antoine Pitrou c83ea137d7 Untabify C files. Will watch buildbots. 2010-05-09 14:46:46 +00:00
Antoine Pitrou 951919f558 Issue #4687: Fix accuracy of garbage collection runtimes displayed with
gc.DEBUG_STATS.
2010-05-02 19:51:14 +00:00
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc 2401c03746 Fix a typo in comment 2009-12-27 20:06:44 +00:00
Antoine Pitrou f8387af262 Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can
reduce the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead
on long-running programs, depending on their particular use of datatypes.

(trivia: this makes the "binary_trees" benchmark from the Computer Language
Shootout 40% faster)
2009-03-23 18:41:45 +00:00
Benjamin Peterson 78821ddf8c fix building the core with --disable-unicode
I changed some bytearray methods to use strings instead of unicode like bytes_repr
Also, bytearray.fromhex() can take strings as well as unicode
2009-01-25 17:15:10 +00:00
Antoine Pitrou 4c5ecb7cbb Issue #4074: Change the criteria for doing a full garbage collection (i.e.
collecting the oldest generation) so that allocating lots of objects without
destroying them does not show quadratic performance. Based on a proposal by
Martin von Löwis at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080579.html.
2009-01-09 21:40:55 +00:00
Antoine Pitrou 73c0e65fc3 Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reports invalid elapsed times.
Patch by Neil Schemenauer, very slightly modified.
2008-12-17 22:46:54 +00:00
Neal Norwitz e7d8be80ba Security patches from Apple: prevent int overflow when allocating memory 2008-07-31 17:17:14 +00:00
Gregory P. Smith 2fe77060eb - Issue #2862: Make int and float freelist management consistent with other
freelists.  Changes their CompactFreeList apis into ClearFreeList apis and
  calls them via gc.collect().
2008-07-06 03:35:58 +00:00
Gregory P. Smith dd96db63f6 This reverts r63675 based on the discussion in this thread:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/079988.html

Python 2.6 should stick with PyString_* in its codebase.  The PyBytes_* names
in the spirit of 3.0 are available via a #define only.  See the email thread.
2008-06-09 04:58:54 +00:00
Christian Heimes 593daf545b Renamed PyString to PyBytes 2008-05-26 12:51:38 +00:00
Christian Heimes 3b718a79af Implemented Martin's suggestion to clear the free lists during the garbage collection of the highest generation. 2008-02-14 12:47:33 +00:00
Christian Heimes 000a074c95 Modified PyImport_Import and PyImport_ImportModule to always use absolute imports by calling __import__ with an explicit level of 0
Added a new API function PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock. It solves the problem with dead locks when mixing threads and imports
2008-01-03 22:16:32 +00:00
Christian Heimes e93237dfcc #1629: Renamed Py_Size, Py_Type and Py_Refcnt to Py_SIZE, Py_TYPE and Py_REFCNT. Macros for b/w compatibility are available. 2007-12-19 02:37:44 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 6819210b9e PEP 3123: Provide forward compatibility with Python 3.0, while keeping
backwards compatibility. Add Py_Refcnt, Py_Type, Py_Size, and
PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT.
2007-07-21 06:55:02 +00:00
Barry Warsaw e5ec613c4b List gc.get_count() in the module docstring. 2006-10-09 19:43:24 +00:00
Georg Brandl 684fd0c8ec Replace PyObject_CallFunction calls with only object args
with PyObject_CallFunctionObjArgs, which is 30% faster.
2006-05-25 19:15:31 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 57a0361a9e Patch from Aldo Cortesi (OpenBSD buildbot owner).
After the patch (45590) to add extra debug stats to the gc module, Python
was crashing on OpenBSD due to:
	Fatal Python error: Interpreter not initialized (version mismatch?)

This seems to occur due to calling collect() when initialized (in pythonrun.c)
is set to 0.  Now, the import will occur in the init function which
shouldn't suffer this problem.
2006-04-26 05:34:03 +00:00
Skip Montanaro c34b931d78 This is a long-ago patch I submitted to SF (1100924) to time the gc passes.
Barry approved it awhile ago.  Been sitting in my sandbox for awhile as
well.
2006-04-21 01:33:40 +00:00
Anthony Baxter 64182fe0b3 Some more changes to make code compile under a C++ compiler. 2006-04-11 12:14:09 +00:00
Phillip J. Eby 2ba96610bf SF Patch #1463867: Improved generator finalization to allow generators
that are suspended outside of any try/except/finally blocks to be
garbage collected even if they are part of a cycle.  Generators that
suspend inside of an active try/except or try/finally block (including
those created by a ``with`` statement) are still not GC-able if they
are part of a cycle, however.
2006-04-10 17:51:05 +00:00
Neal Norwitz ffb0d90a6e Handle ssize_t 2006-04-06 08:07:25 +00:00
Tim Peters 62e97f023b In format strings slinging Py_ssize_t, unconditionally
interpolate PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T instead of #if'ing on
MS_WIN64.
2006-03-28 21:44:32 +00:00
Georg Brandl 5c170fd4a9 Fix some missing checks after PyTuple_New, PyList_New, PyDict_New 2006-03-17 19:03:25 +00:00
Barry Warsaw d3c38ff7f8 SF patch #1443865; gc.get_count() added and optional argument 'generation'
added to gc.collect().  Updated docs, unit test, and NEWS entry.

(Also, fixed a typo in NEWS.)
2006-03-07 09:46:03 +00:00
Neal Norwitz e22373d690 Fix warnings on x86 (32-bit) and support Win64. 2006-03-06 23:31:56 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 7b216c52e4 Make PyGC_Collect() use Py_ssize_t. 2006-03-04 20:01:53 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 6db0e00d57 Change GC refcount to Py_ssize_t. 2006-03-01 16:56:25 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 41290685f9 Change _PyObject_GC_Resize to expect Py_ssize_t. 2006-02-16 14:56:14 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis 18e165558b Merge ssize_t branch. 2006-02-15 17:27:45 +00:00
Neal Norwitz 1ac754fa10 Check return result from Py_InitModule*(). This API can fail.
Probably should be backported.
2006-01-19 06:09:39 +00:00
Phillip J. Eby 0d6615fd29 PEP 342 implementation. Per Guido's comments, the generator throw()
method still needs to support string exceptions, and allow None for the
third argument.  Documentation updates are needed, too.
2005-08-02 00:46:46 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer 3b1cbf9ba0 Add missing INCREF.
Backport candidate.
2005-06-18 17:37:06 +00:00
Tim Peters bc1d1b80d1 gc_list_move(): Make this truly equivalent to remove+append. While
nothing in gc currently cares, the original coding could screw up if,
e.g., you tried to move a node to the list it's already in, and the node
was already the last in its list.
2004-11-01 16:39:57 +00:00
Tim Peters e2d591847c gc list function cleanup.
Introduced gc_list_move(), which captures the common gc_list_remove() +
gc_list_append() sequence.  In fact, no uses of gc_list_append() remained
(they were all in a gc_list_move() sequence), so commented that one out.

gc_list_merge():  assert that `from` != `to`; that was an implicit
precondition, now verified in a debug build.

Others:  added comments about their purpose.
2004-11-01 01:39:08 +00:00
Tim Peters cc2a866cb7 handle_weakrefs(): Simplification -- there's no need to make a second
pass over the unreachable weakrefs-with-callbacks to unreachable objects.
2004-10-31 22:12:43 +00:00
Tim Peters ead8b7ab30 SF 1055820: weakref callback vs gc vs threads
In cyclic gc, clear weakrefs to unreachable objects before allowing any
Python code (weakref callbacks or __del__ methods) to run.

This is a critical bugfix, affecting all versions of Python since weakrefs
were introduced.  I'll backport to 2.3.
2004-10-30 23:09:22 +00:00
Raymond Hettinger 674d56b82e Convert return value to boolean. 2004-01-04 04:00:13 +00:00
Guido van Rossum 0bba722fff Silence GCC warning when asserts are turned off. 2003-11-24 04:02:13 +00:00
Tim Peters 403a203223 SF bug 839548: Bug in type's GC handling causes segfaults.
Also SF patch 843455.

This is a critical bugfix.
I'll backport to 2.3 maint, but not beyond that.  The bugs this fixes
have been there since weakrefs were introduced.
2003-11-20 21:21:46 +00:00
Tim Peters 780c497972 update_refs(): assert that incoming refcounts aren't 0. The comment
for this function has always claimed that was true, but it wasn't
verified before.  For the latest batch of "double deallocation" bugs
(stemming from weakref callbacks invoked by way of subtype_dealloc),
this assert would have triggered (instead of waiting for
_Py_ForgetReference to die with a segfault later).
2003-11-14 00:01:17 +00:00
Jason Tishler 6bc06eca70 Bug #794140: cygwin builds do not embed
The embed2.diff patch solves the user's problem by exporting the missing
symbols from the Python core so Python can be embedded in another Cygwin
application (well, at lest vim).
2003-09-04 11:59:50 +00:00
Guido van Rossum e13ddc9ec8 - New C API PyGC_Collect(), same as calling gc.collect().
- Call this in Py_Finalize().
- Expand the Misc/NEWS text on PY_LONG_LONG.
2003-04-17 17:29:22 +00:00
Tim Peters 730f5535ba s/referrents/referents/g. Gotta love that referrers remains rife with rs. 2003-04-08 17:17:17 +00:00
Tim Peters 0f81ab6d88 Finished implementing gc.get_referrents(): dealt with error and end
cases, wrote docs, added a test.
2003-04-08 16:39:48 +00:00
Tim Peters fb2ab4d5ae Comment repair; no semantic changes. 2003-04-07 22:41:24 +00:00
Tim Peters f6b8045ca5 Reworked has_finalizer() to use the new _PyObject_Lookup() instead
of PyObject_HasAttr(); the former promises never to execute
arbitrary Python code.  Undid many of the changes recently made to
worm around the worst consequences of that PyObject_HasAttr() could
execute arbitrary Python code.

Compatibility is hard to discuss, because the dangerous cases are
so perverse, and much of this appears to rely on implementation
accidents.

To start with, using hasattr() to check for __del__ wasn't only
dangerous, in some cases it was wrong:  if an instance of an old-
style class didn't have "__del__" in its instance dict or in any
base class dict, but a getattr hook said __del__ existed, then
hasattr() said "yes, this object has a __del__".  But
instance_dealloc() ignores the possibility of getattr hooks when
looking for a __del__, so while object.__del__ succeeds, no
__del__ method is called when the object is deleted.  gc was
therefore incorrect in believing that the object had a finalizer.

The new method doesn't suffer that problem (like instance_dealloc(),
_PyObject_Lookup() doesn't believe __del__ exists in that case), but
does suffer a somewhat opposite-- and even more obscure --oddity:
if an instance of an old-style class doesn't have "__del__" in its
instance dict, and a base class does have "__del__" in its dict,
and the first base class with a "__del__" associates it with a
descriptor (an object with a __get__ method), *and* if that
descriptor raises an exception when __get__ is called, then
(a) the current method believes the instance does have a __del__,
but (b) hasattr() does not believe the instance has a __del__.

While these disagree, I believe the new method is "more correct":
because the descriptor *will* be called when the object is
destructed, it can execute arbitrary Python code at the time the
object is destructed, and that's really what gc means by "has a
finalizer":  not specifically a __del__ method, but more generally
the possibility of executing arbitrary Python code at object
destruction time.  Code in a descriptor's __get__() executed at
destruction time can be just as problematic as code in a
__del__() executed then.

So I believe the new method is better on all counts.

Bugfix candidate, but it's unclear to me how all this differs in
the 2.2 branch (e.g., new-style and old-style classes already
took different gc paths in 2.3 before this last round of patches,
but don't in the 2.2 branch).
2003-04-07 19:21:15 +00:00
Tim Peters 1155887a74 initgc(): Rewrote to use the PyModule_AddXYZ API; cuts code size. 2003-04-06 23:30:52 +00:00
Tim Peters 259272b7a0 handle_finalizers(): Rewrote to call append_objects() and gc_list_merge()
instead of looping.  Smaller and clearer.  Faster, too, when we're not
appending to gc.garbage:  gc_list_merge() takes constant time, regardless
of the lists' sizes.

append_objects():  Moved up to live with the other list manipulation
utilities.
2003-04-06 19:41:39 +00:00
Tim Peters 50c61d5a6c Switched from METH_VARARGS to METH_NOARGS for the 7 module functions that
take no arguments; cuts generated code size.
2003-04-06 01:50:50 +00:00