Feature or enhancement

Proposal:

A reminder of how _CHECK_FUNCTION looks like:

        tier2 op(_CHECK_FUNCTION, (func_version/2 -- )) {
            assert(PyStackRef_FunctionCheck(frame->f_funcobj));
            PyFunctionObject *func = (PyFunctionObject *)PyStackRef_AsPyObjectBorrow(frame->f_funcobj);
            DEOPT_IF(func->func_version != func_version);
        }

frame->f_funcobj becomes invalid once we start inlining functions. Thus we should "burn in" the function object version to be checked whenever possible, to not interfere with inlining and partial evaluation.

An added benefit is that the "burned in" version is also cheaper as it doesn't have to read from the frame struct, rather reading from the instruction itself in the JIT.

Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

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Links to previous discussion of this feature:

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Linked PRs

• gh-126902: Strength reduce _CHECK_FUNCTION #126856