* Docs: a start on an 'improve this page' feature
* pr feedback: simplify the link, and don't scare people with the cla
* pr feedback answered
- use the actual page URL
- tighten the wording
* fix the improve link on the improve page
* news item
* Update Doc/improve-page.rst
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* fix whitespace
* A nojs version of the page
* comments to help people keep the two pages in sync
* protect against XSS
* use template for issues from the nojs page
* use the template from the JS page as well
* give the docs issue template a fillable description field
* ugh, getting sloppy
* remove more sloppiness
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Along the way, leave a deprecated Tools/wasm/wasi/__main__.py behind for backwards-compatibility.
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iOS tests are flaky right now. Based on the convo in Discord, it seems like allowing failures is the best option.
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This commit updates CI and configuration from wasi-sdk-25 to wasi-sdk-29
which was released recently. This notably includes stubs for pthreads
which all return errors, so some adjustment in logic is necessary to
retain knowledge that WASI cannot yet spawn threads for example.
This additionally increases the wasm stack allowance to 32MiB from 16MiB
to accomodate the `test_recursive_pickle` test in the
`test_functools.py` file. It looks like the Clang/LLVM update that
happened in wasi-sdk-29 relative to wasi-sdk-25 is likely the cause of
this where presumably functions have more locals than before and/or a
slightly adjusted stack space requirement which overflows the stack.
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`.
