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Yesterday I experimented with a patch which added the co_doc property and _PyCode_GetDoc() for extracting a docstring from code's constants. I was not sure in the usefulness of that feature, seems there are no use of co_doc in the Python code, and there is exactly one use of _PyCode_GetDoc() in the C code.

But your PR looks more interesting.

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warsaw commented Oct 3, 2021

Do you have a bug #? Is the motivation to reduce memory overhead and performance with the docstring isn't used?

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@warsaw This PR is spin-off idea of bpo-36521. Motivation is faster function creation (including lambda) when docstring is not used.

But performance gain is only 3~5% in micro benchmark and having backward incompatibility:

>>> def foo(): "foo"
...
>>> def bar(): "bar"
...
>>> bar.__code__ = foo.__code__
>>> bar.__doc__
'foo'  # was 'bar'

P.S. I created new issue for this idea. bpo-45455.

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@methane methane changed the title Set func.__doc__ lazy. bpo-45455: Set func.__doc__ lazy. Oct 13, 2021
@methane methane changed the title bpo-45455: Set func.__doc__ lazy. bpo-45455: Set func.__doc__ lazily. Oct 13, 2021
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rhettinger commented May 10, 2022

I don't see the benefit. We still use the same amount of the memory. The pointer just gets copied later rather than sooner. AFAICT, at best it saves a single INCREF.

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methane commented May 11, 2022

Yes. This have only 3~5% performance gain on microbenchmark.

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