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@vstinner vstinner commented Sep 24, 2018

property_descr_get() uses a "cached" tuple to optimize function
calls. But this tuple can be discovered in debug mode with
sys.getobjects(). Remove the optimization, it's not really worth it
and it causes 3 different crashes.

Microbenchmark:

./python -m perf timeit -v
-s "from collections import namedtuple; P = namedtuple('P', 'x y'); p = P(1, 2)"
--duplicate 1024 "p.x"

Result:

Mean +- std dev: [ref] 32.8 ns +- 0.8 ns -> [patch] 40.4 ns +- 1.3 ns: 1.23x slower (+23%)

https://bugs.python.org/issue30156

property_descr_get() uses a "cached" tuple to optimize function
calls. But this tuple can be discovered in debug mode with
sys.getobjects(). Remove the optimization, it's not really worth it
and it causes 3 different crashes last years.

Microbenchmark:

./python -m perf timeit -v \
    -s "from collections import namedtuple; P = namedtuple('P', 'x y'); p = P(1, 2)" \
    --duplicate 1024 "p.x"

Result:

Mean +- std dev: [ref] 32.8 ns +- 0.8 ns -> [patch] 40.4 ns +- 1.3 ns: 1.23x slower (+23%)
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I rewrote my commit to add a NEWS entry and update the commit message.

@vstinner vstinner merged commit e972c13 into python:master Oct 1, 2018
@vstinner vstinner deleted the property_descr_get branch October 1, 2018 10:03
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vstinner commented Oct 1, 2018

Thanks for the review @rhettinger ;-)

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