Unblocked and merged revisions 67494 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk
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r67494 | jeffrey.yasskin | 2008-12-02 22:46:45 -0800 (Tue, 02 Dec 2008) | 5 lines
Speed up Python (according to pybench and 2to3-on-itself) by 1-2% by caching
whether any thread has tracing turned on, which saves one load instruction in
the fast_next_opcode path in PyEval_EvalFrameEx(). See issue 4477.
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diff --git a/Python/ceval.c b/Python/ceval.c
index 5bac65f..bd35185 100644
--- a/Python/ceval.c
+++ b/Python/ceval.c
@@ -504,6 +504,13 @@
static enum why_code do_raise(PyObject *, PyObject *, PyObject *);
static int unpack_iterable(PyObject *, int, PyObject **);
+/* Records whether tracing is on for any thread. Counts the number of
+ threads for which tstate->c_tracefunc is non-NULL, so if the value
+ is 0, we know we don't have to check this thread's c_tracefunc.
+ This speeds up the if statement in PyEval_EvalFrameEx() after
+ fast_next_opcode*/
+static int _Py_TracingPossible = 0;
+
/* for manipulating the thread switch and periodic "stuff" - used to be
per thread, now just a pair o' globals */
int _Py_CheckInterval = 100;
@@ -886,7 +893,8 @@
/* line-by-line tracing support */
- if (tstate->c_tracefunc != NULL && !tstate->tracing) {
+ if (_Py_TracingPossible &&
+ tstate->c_tracefunc != NULL && !tstate->tracing) {
/* see maybe_call_line_trace
for expository comments */
f->f_stacktop = stack_pointer;
@@ -3432,6 +3440,7 @@
{
PyThreadState *tstate = PyThreadState_GET();
PyObject *temp = tstate->c_traceobj;
+ _Py_TracingPossible += (func != NULL) - (tstate->c_tracefunc != NULL);
Py_XINCREF(arg);
tstate->c_tracefunc = NULL;
tstate->c_traceobj = NULL;