Tag: evaluation
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Python’s Innards: Hello, ceval.c!
The “Python’s Innards” series owes its existence, at least in part, to hearing one of the Python-Fu masters in my previous workplace say something about a switch statement so large that it was needed to break it up just so some compilers won’t choke on it. I remember thinking then: “Choke the compiler with a…
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Python’s Innards: Interpreter Stacks
Those of you who have been paying attention know that this series is spiraling towards what can be considered the core of Python’s Virtual Machine, the “actually do work function” ./Python/ceval.c: PyEval_EvalFrameEx. The (hopefully) last hurdle on our way there is to understand the three significant stack data structures used for CPython’s code evaluation: the…