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bpo-40512: Store pointer to interpreter state in a thread local variable #29228
bpo-40512: Store pointer to interpreter state in a thread local variable #29228
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Why the current interpreter and not the current
PyThreadState
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Two reasons.
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Would it make sense to do both? (They are both hot in different situations.) What is the cost to the number of thread-local variables?
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Why the switch to
PyInterpreterState_Get()
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Modules cannot access a thread-local directly because they are dynamically loaded. It is a loader, rather a language, limitation, I think.
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That's good to know. Thanks for explaining. This might not be obvious to maintainers. Would you mind adding a short comment next to the declaration of
_py_current_interpreter
noting the constraint?Also, this doesn't affect builtin modules, right? Aren't some of the modules updated here builtin modules?
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It is too easy to overlook the
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when making this change. Using the comparison operator makes it clearer that we are checking thatinterp
is not the main interpreter.Both @ericsnowcurrently and I have made this mistake recently.