[Python-ideas] Looking for people interested in a Python register virtual machine project

Skip Montanaro skip.montanaro at gmail.com
Mon Mar 22 18:12:01 EDT 2021


> Yeah, that is old writing, so is probably less clear (no pun intended)
> than it should be. In frame_dealloc, Py_CLEAR is called for
> stack/register slots instead of just Py_XDECREF. Might not be
> necessary.

Also, the intent is not to change any semantics here. The
implementation of RETURN_VALUE_REG still Py_INCREFs the to-be-returned
value. It's not like the data can get reclaimed before the caller
receives it.

S


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