interning. I modified Oren's patch significantly, but the basic idea
and most of the implementation is unchanged. Interned strings created
with PyString_InternInPlace() are now mortal, and you must keep a
reference to the resulting string around; use the new function
PyString_InternImmortal() to create immortal interned strings.
comments everywhere that bugged me: /* Foo is inlined */ instead of
/* Inline Foo */. Somehow the "is inlined" phrase always confused me
for half a second (thinking, "No it isn't" until I added the missing
"here"). The new phrase is hopefully unambiguous.
expensive and overly general PyObject_IsInstance(), call
PyObject_TypeCheck() which is a macro that often avoids a call, and if
it does make a call, calls the much more efficient PyType_IsSubtype().
This saved 6% on a benchmark for slot lookups.
-- replace then with slightly faster PyObject_Call(o,a,NULL). (The
difference is that the latter requires a to be a tuple; the former
allows other values and wraps them in a tuple if necessary; it
involves two more levels of C function calls to accomplish all that.)
rigorous instead of hoping for testing not to turn up counterexamples.
Call me heretical, but despite that I'm wholly confident in the proof,
and have done it two different ways now, I still put more faith in
testing ...
[ 587993 ] SET_LINENO killer
Remove SET_LINENO. Tracing is now supported by inspecting co_lnotab.
Many sundry changes to document and adapt to this change.
ah*bh and al*bl. This is much easier than explaining why that's true
for (ah+al)*(bh+bl), and follows directly from the simple part of the
(ah+al)*(bh+bl) explanation.
space is no longer needed, so removed the code. It was only possible when
a degenerate (ah->ob_size == 0) split happened, but after that fix went
in I added k_lopsided_mul(), which saves the body of k_mul() from seeing
a degenerate split. So this removes code, and adds a honking long comment
block explaining why spilling out of bounds isn't possible anymore. Note:
ff we end up spilling out of bounds anyway <wink>, an assert in v_iadd()
is certain to trigger.
