bpo-30156: Remove property_descr_get() optimization (GH-9541)
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%) V
Victor Stinner committed
e972c13624c32d0efdceb08ff83917fb6b488525
Parent: 9df1002
Committed by GitHub <noreply@github.com>
on 10/1/2018, 10:03:22 AM