New submission from STINNER Victor:
The C structure "PyThreadState" has a counter which is incremented in the
bytecode evaluation loop (ceval.c), but never used.
/* XXX doesn't mean anything anymore (the comment below is obsolete)
=> deprecate or remove? */
/* tick_counter is incremented whenever the check_interval ticker
* reaches zero. The purpose is to give a useful measure of the number
* of interpreted bytecode instructions in a given thread. This
* extremely lightweight statistic collector may be of interest to
* profilers (like psyco.jit()), although nothing in the core uses it.
*/
int tick_counter;
Antoine Pitrou added the XXX comment when he merged the "new GIL" of Python 3.2.
Can we now remove it?
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messages: 199256
nosy: haypo, pitrou, serhiy.storchaka
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
versions: Python 3.4
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