This PR changes the current JIT model from trace projection to trace recording. Benchmarking: better pyperformance (about 1.7% overall) geomean versus current https://raw.githubusercontent.com/facebookexperimental/free-threading-benchmarking/refs/heads/main/results/bm-20251108-3.15.0a1%2B-7e2bc1d-JIT/bm-20251108-vultr-x86_64-Fidget%252dSpinner-tracing_jit-3.15.0a1%2B-7e2bc1d-vs-base.svg, 100% faster Richards on the most improved benchmark versus the current JIT. Slowdown of about 10-15% on the worst benchmark versus the current JIT. **Note: the fastest version isn't the one merged, as it relies on fixing bugs in the specializing interpreter, which is left to another PR**. The speedup in the merged version is about 1.1%. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/facebookexperimental/free-threading-benchmarking/refs/heads/main/results/bm-20251112-3.15.0a1%2B-f8a764a-JIT/bm-20251112-vultr-x86_64-Fidget%252dSpinner-tracing_jit-3.15.0a1%2B-f8a764a-vs-base.svg
Stats: 50% more uops executed, 30% more traces entered the last time we ran them. It also suggests our trace lengths for a real trace recording JIT are too short, as a lot of trace too long aborts https://github.com/facebookexperimental/free-threading-benchmarking/blob/main/results/bm-20251023-3.15.0a1%2B-eb73378-CLANG%2CJIT/bm-20251023-vultr-x86_64-Fidget%252dSpinner-tracing_jit-3.15.0a1%2B-eb73378-pystats-vs-base.md .
This new JIT frontend is already able to record/execute significantly more instructions than the previous JIT frontend. In this PR, we are now able to record through custom dunders, simple object creation, generators, etc. None of these were done by the old JIT frontend. Some custom dunders uops were discovered to be broken as part of this work gh-140277
The optimizer stack space check is disabled, as it's no longer valid to deal with underflow.
Pros:
* Ignoring the generated tracer code as it's automatically created, this is only additional 1k lines of code. The maintenance burden is handled by the DSL and code generator.
* `optimizer.c` is now significantly simpler, as we don't have to do strange things to recover the bytecode from a trace.
* The new JIT frontend is able to handle a lot more control-flow than the old one.
* Tracing is very low overhead. We use the tail calling interpreter/computed goto interpreter to switch between tracing mode and non-tracing mode. I call this mechanism dual dispatch, as we have two dispatch tables dispatching to each other. Specialization is still enabled while tracing.
* Better handling of polymorphism. We leverage the specializing interpreter for this.
Cons:
* (For now) requires tail calling interpreter or computed gotos. This means no Windows JIT for now :(. Not to fret, tail calling is coming soon to Windows though https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/139962
Design:
* After each instruction, the `record_previous_inst` function/label is executed. This does as the name suggests.
* The tracing interpreter lowers bytecode to uops directly so that it can obtain "fresh" values at the point of lowering.
* The tracing version behaves nearly identical to the normal interpreter, in fact it even has specialization! This allows it to run without much of a slowdown when tracing. The actual cost of tracing is only a function call and writes to memory.
* The tracing interpreter uses the specializing interpreter's deopt to naturally form the side exit chains. This allows it to side exit chain effectively, without repeating much code. We force a re-specializing when tracing a deopt.
* The tracing interpreter can even handle goto errors/exceptions, but I chose to disable them for now as it's not tested.
* Because we do not share interpreter dispatch, there is should be no significant slowdown to the original specializing interpreter on tailcall and computed got with JIT disabled. With JIT enabled, there might be a slowdown in the form of the JIT trying to trace.
* Things that could have dynamic instruction pointer effects are guarded on. The guard deopts to a new instruction --- `_DYNAMIC_EXIT`.
Fix the `test_generated_cases` to work with `-O` or `-OO` flags.
Previously, `test_generated_cases` was catching an `AssertionError` while `Tools/cases_generator/optimizer_generator.py` used an `assert` statement. This approach semantically incorrect, no one should trying to catch an `AssertionError`!
Now the `assert` statement has been replaced with an explicit `raise ValueError(...)` and the corresponding `self.assertRaisesRegex(AssertionError, ...)` has been updated to catch a `ValueError` instead.
This adds a "macro" to the optimizer DSL called "REPLACE_OPCODE_IF_EVALUATES_PURE", which allows automatically constant evaluating a bytecode body if certain inputs have no side effects upon evaluations (such as ints, strings, and floats).
Co-authored-by: Tomas R. <tomas.roun8@gmail.com>
This PR adds a PyJitRef API to the JIT's optimizer that mimics the _PyStackRef API. This allows it to track references and their stack lifetimes properly. Thus opening up the doorway to refcount elimination in the JIT.
* FOR_ITER now pushes either the iterator and NULL or leaves the iterable and pushes tagged zero
* NEXT_ITER uses the tagged int as the index into the sequence or, if TOS is NULL, iterates as before.
Optimize `LOAD_FAST` opcodes into faster versions that load borrowed references onto the operand stack when we can prove that the lifetime of the local outlives the lifetime of the temporary that is loaded onto the stack.
* Rename 'defined' attribute to 'in_local' to more accurately reflect how it is used
* Make death of variables explicit even for array variables.
* Convert in_memory from boolean to stack offset
* Don't apply liveness analyis to optimizer generated code
* Add 'out' parameter to stack.pop
* Rename 'defined' attribute to 'in_local' to more accurately reflect how it is used
* Make death of variables explicit even for array variables.
* Convert in_memory from boolean to stack offset
* Don't apply liveness analysis to optimizer generated code
* Fix RETURN_VALUE in optimizer
Add free-threaded versions of existing specialization for FOR_ITER (list, tuples, fast range iterators and generators), without significantly affecting their thread-safety. (Iterating over shared lists/tuples/ranges should be fine like before. Reusing iterators between threads is not fine, like before. Sharing generators between threads is a recipe for significant crashes, like before.)
* Fix use after free in list objects
Set the items pointer in the list object to NULL after the items array
is freed during list deallocation. Otherwise, we can end up with a list
object added to the free list that contains a pointer to an already-freed
items array.
* Mark `_PyList_FromStackRefStealOnSuccess` as escaping
I think technically it's not escaping, because the only object that
can be decrefed if allocation fails is an exact list, which cannot
execute arbitrary code when it is destroyed. However, this seems less
intrusive than trying to special cases objects in the assert in `_Py_Dealloc`
that checks for non-null stackpointers and shouldn't matter for performance.
* Combine _GUARD_GLOBALS_VERSION_PUSH_KEYS and _LOAD_GLOBAL_MODULE_FROM_KEYS into _LOAD_GLOBAL_MODULE
* Combine _GUARD_BUILTINS_VERSION_PUSH_KEYS and _LOAD_GLOBAL_BUILTINS_FROM_KEYS into _LOAD_GLOBAL_BUILTINS
* Combine _CHECK_ATTR_MODULE_PUSH_KEYS and _LOAD_ATTR_MODULE_FROM_KEYS into _LOAD_ATTR_MODULE
* Remove stack transient in LOAD_ATTR_WITH_HINT
* Implement C recursion protection with limit pointers for Linux, MacOS and Windows
* Remove calls to PyOS_CheckStack
* Add stack protection to parser
* Make tests more robust to low stacks
* Improve error messages for stack overflow
Revert "GH-91079: Implement C stack limits using addresses, not counters. (GH-130007)" for now
Unfortunatlely, the change broke some buildbots.
This reverts commit 2498c22fa0.
