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Kevin Modzelewski authored
An experimental way of making the runtime faster. Previously, the C++ runtime was much slower than pure-Python code, since the Python code can use the JIT to improve performance (through inline caches and type speculation). This commit adds "runtime ics", which are out-of-band patchpoints that we can allocate from C++. We insert them into the same patchpoint system that gets used by the main JIT pipeline, so they get rewritten like any other patchpoint, but the lifetime and use gets controlled by the C++ code. The trickiest part is getting the newly-allocated instruction regions to work with our exception handling; to make this work we have to emit .eh_frame sections. (A custom libunwind-based exception unwinder might not have this requirement.) Otherwise it feels like a decent approach. Right now just using it to implement class slots and then only using them in the pyElements iterator; it's probably not the most direct or efficient way of implementing that particular feature, but it has the benefit of being general and being useful for things such as binops which are not directly expressible in terms of class slots. This commit adds the support without turning the feature on (next commit will turn it on), since there are a number of other changes needed.
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