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authorCarl Meyer <carl@oddbird.net>2023-05-31 02:19:04 (GMT)
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gh-87729: add LOAD_SUPER_ATTR to 3.12 What's New (#105125)
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@@ -899,6 +899,10 @@ Optimizations
the :mod:`tokenize` module. (Contributed by Marta Gómez Macías and Pablo Galindo
in :gh:`102856`.)
+* Speed up :func:`super` method calls and attribute loads via the
+ new :opcode:`LOAD_SUPER_ATTR` instruction. (Contributed by Carl Meyer and
+ Vladimir Matveev in :gh:`103497`.)
+
CPython bytecode changes
========================
@@ -917,6 +921,9 @@ CPython bytecode changes
:opcode:`LOAD_LOCALS` plus :opcode:`LOAD_FROM_DICT_OR_DEREF`. (Contributed
by Jelle Zijlstra in :gh:`103764`.)
+* Add the :opcode:`LOAD_SUPER_ATTR` instruction. (Contributed by Carl Meyer and
+ Vladimir Matveev in :gh:`103497`.)
+
Demos and Tools
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