PyCode_GetCode
could be faster
#93382
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3.12
interpreter-core
Interpreter core (Objects, Python, Grammar, and Parser dirs)
performance
Performance or resource usage
This potentially affects tools like coverage.py. It also means anything using
co_code
in CPython frequently is significantly slower. Note that pre-3.11, most code would assume this operation is O(1), so it's probably called more often than we expect.We should lazily initialise a hidden
_co_code
field and cache it there. Currently it creates a fresh bytes object on eachco_code
access. This is at best O(n).The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: