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Jim Mussared
5e9189d6d1 py/vm: Avoid heap-allocating slices when subscripting built-ins.
This commit adds a fast-path optimisation for when a BUILD_SLICE is
immediately followed by a LOAD/STORE_SUBSCR for a native type, to avoid
needing to allocate the slice on the heap.

In some cases (e.g. `a[1:3] = x`) this can result in no allocations at all.

We can't do this for instance types because the get/set/delattr
implementation may keep a reference to the slice.

Adds more tests to the basic slice tests to ensure that a stack-allocated
slice never makes it to Python, and also a heapalloc test that verifies
(when using bytecode) that assigning to a slice is no-alloc.

This work was funded through GitHub Sponsors.

Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
2025-07-16 00:12:47 +10:00
Damien George
bc5b896f24 tests/basics/builtin_slice: Add test for "slice" builtin name. 2016-10-24 13:35:39 +11:00
Damien George
9dd3640464 tests: Add missing tests for builtins, and many other things. 2015-04-04 22:05:30 +01:00