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authorEric Snow <ericsnowcurrently@gmail.com>2021-06-08 22:01:34 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2021-06-08 22:01:34 (GMT)
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bpo-43693: Un-revert commit f3fa63e. (#26609)
This was reverted in GH-26596 (commit 6d518bb) due to some bad memory accesses. * Add the MAKE_CELL opcode. (gh-26396) The memory accesses have been fixed. https://bugs.python.org/issue43693
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+A new opcode MAKE_CELL has been added that effectively moves some of
+the work done on function entry into the compiler and into the eval
+loop. In addition to creating the required cell objects, the new
+opcode converts relevant arguments (and other locals) to cell
+variables on function entry.