When Python is not compiled with PGO, the performance of Python on call_simple
and call_method microbenchmarks depend highly on the code placement. In the
worst case, the performance slowdown can be up to 70%.
The GCC __attribute__((hot)) attribute helps to keep hot code close to reduce
the risk of such major slowdown. This attribute is ignored when Python is
compiled with PGO.
The following functions are considered as hot according to statistics collected
by perf record/perf report:
* _PyEval_EvalFrameDefault()
* call_function()
* _PyFunction_FastCall()
* PyFrame_New()
* frame_dealloc()
* PyErr_Occurred()
computation as the overflow behavior of signed integers is undefined.
NOTE: This change is smaller compared to 3.2 as much of this cleanup had
already been done. I added the comment that my change in 3.2 added so that the
code would match up. Otherwise this just adds or synchronizes appropriate UL
designations on some constants to be pedantic.
In practice we require compiling everything with -fwrapv which forces overflow
to be defined as twos compliment but this keeps the code cleaner for checkers
or in the case where someone has compiled it without -fwrapv or their
compiler's equivalent. We could work to get rid of the -fwrapv requirement
in 3.4 but that requires more planning.
Found by Clang trunk's Undefined Behavior Sanitizer (UBSan).
Cleanup only - no functionality or hash values change.
computation as the overflow behavior of signed integers is undefined.
NOTE: This change is smaller compared to 3.2 as much of this cleanup had
already been done. I added the comment that my change in 3.2 added so that the
code would match up. Otherwise this just adds or synchronizes appropriate UL
designations on some constants to be pedantic.
In practice we require compiling everything with -fwrapv which forces overflow
to be defined as twos compliment but this keeps the code cleaner for checkers
or in the case where someone has compiled it without -fwrapv or their
compiler's equivalent.
Found by Clang trunk's Undefined Behavior Sanitizer (UBSan).
Cleanup only - no functionality or hash values change.
computation as the overflow behavior of signed integers is undefined.
In practice we require compiling everything with -fwrapv which forces overflow
to be defined as twos compliment but this keeps the code cleaner for checkers
or in the case where someone has compiled it without -fwrapv or their
compiler's equivalent.
Found by Clang trunk's Undefined Behavior Sanitizer (UBSan).
Cleanup only - no functionality or hash values change.
Victor Stinner
Benjamin Peterson
Christian Heimes
Ned Deily
Stefan Krah
Berker Peksag
Steve Dower
Larry Hastings
Christian Heimes
Serhiy Storchaka
Terry Jan Reedy
Gregory P. Smith
Mark Dickinson
Georg Brandl
Jesus Cea
Mark Dickinson