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authorMark Shannon <mark@hotpy.org>2021-06-07 17:38:06 (GMT)
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bpo-44187: Quickening infrastructure (GH-26264)
* Add co_firstinstr field to code object. * Implement barebones quickening. * Use non-quickened bytecode when tracing. * Add NEWS item * Add new file to Windows build. * Don't specialize instructions with EXTENDED_ARG.
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+Implement quickening in the interpreter. This offers no advantages as
+yet, but is an enabler of future optimizations. See PEP 659 for full
+explanation.