New submission from Ian H <insertinterestingnameh...@gmail.com>:
While working on another project I noticed that there's a cache of shared object handles kept inside _PyImport_FindSharedFuncptr. See https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/b2b6cd00c6329426fc3b34700f2e22155b44168c/Python/dynload_shlib.c#L51-L55. It appears to be an optimization to work around poor caching of shared object handles in old libc implementations. After some testing, I have been unable to find any meaningful performance difference from this cache, so I propose we remove it to save the space. My initial tests were on Linux (Ubuntu 18.04). I saw no discernible difference in the time for running the Python test suite with a single thread. Running the test suite using a single thread shows a lot of variance, but after running with and without the cache 40 times the mean times with/without the cache was nearly the same. Interpreter startup time also appears to be unaffected. This was all with a debug build, so I'm in the process of collecting data with a release build to see if that changes anything. ---------- messages: 391453 nosy: Ian.H priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Unnecessary Cache of Shared Object Handles versions: Python 3.10 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue43895> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
