This needs a single bit, but was stored as a void* in the module
struct. This didn't matter due to packing, but now that there's
another bool in the struct, we can save a bit of memory by
making md_gil a bool.
Variables that changed type are renamed, to detect conflicts.
Python has required thread local support since 3.12 (see GH-103324). By assuming that thread locals are always supported, we can improve the performance of third-party extensions by allowing them to access the attached thread and interpreter states directly.
For several builtin functions, we now fall back to __main__.__dict__ for the globals
when there is no current frame and _PyInterpreterState_IsRunningMain() returns
true. This allows those functions to be run with Interpreter.call().
The affected builtins:
* exec()
* eval()
* globals()
* locals()
* vars()
* dir()
We take a similar approach with "stateless" functions, which don't use any
global variables.
We replace it with _Py_GetMainModule(), and add _Py_CheckMainModule(), but both in the internal-only C-API. We also add _PyImport_GetModulesRef(), which is the equivalent of _PyImport_GetModules(), but which increfs before the lock is released.
This is used by a later change related to pickle and handling __main__.
The use of PySys_GetObject() and _PySys_GetAttr(), which return a borrowed
reference, has been replaced by using one of the following functions, which
return a strong reference and distinguish a missing attribute from an error:
_PySys_GetOptionalAttr(), _PySys_GetOptionalAttrString(),
_PySys_GetRequiredAttr(), and _PySys_GetRequiredAttrString().
CPython current temporarily changes `PYMEM_DOMAIN_RAW` to the default
allocator during initialization and shutdown. The motivation is to
ensure that core runtime structures are allocated and freed using the
same allocator. However, modifying the current allocator changes global
state and is not thread-safe even with the GIL. Other threads may be
allocating or freeing objects use PYMEM_DOMAIN_RAW; they are not
required to hold the GIL to call PyMem_RawMalloc/PyMem_RawFree.
This adds new internal-only functions like `_PyMem_DefaultRawMalloc`
that aren't affected by calls to `PyMem_SetAllocator()`, so they're
appropriate for Python runtime initialization and finalization. Use
these calls in places where we previously swapped to the default raw
allocator.
