https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4c20f46fa011df57190cc19b21bafde1f65e73a7
commit: 4c20f46fa011df57190cc19b21bafde1f65e73a7
branch: main
author: Diego Russo <diego.ru...@arm.com>
committer: Fidget-Spinner <kenjin4...@gmail.com>
date: 2025-04-26T02:57:42+08:00
summary:

gh-131798: JIT: Narrow the return type of _CALL_LEN to int (#132940)

Reduce unnecessary guards whenever `len()` is called and used
after.

Co-authored-by: Max Bernstein <tekknol...@gmail.com>

files:
A 
Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2025-04-25-14-56-45.gh-issue-131798.NpcKub.rst
M Lib/test/test_capi/test_opt.py
M Python/optimizer_bytecodes.c
M Python/optimizer_cases.c.h

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_capi/test_opt.py b/Lib/test/test_capi/test_opt.py
index 0fb2d78a87ecf1..0047306ae422db 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_capi/test_opt.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_capi/test_opt.py
@@ -1911,6 +1911,18 @@ def testfunc(n):
         self.assertNotIn("_COMPARE_OP_INT", uops)
         self.assertNotIn("_GUARD_IS_TRUE_POP", uops)
 
+    def test_call_len(self):
+        def testfunc(n):
+            a = [1, 2, 3, 4]
+            for _ in range(n):
+                _ = len(a) - 1
+
+        _, ex = self._run_with_optimizer(testfunc, TIER2_THRESHOLD)
+        uops = get_opnames(ex)
+        self.assertNotIn("_GUARD_NOS_INT", uops)
+        self.assertNotIn("_GUARD_TOS_INT", uops)
+        self.assertIn("_CALL_LEN", uops)
+
 
 def global_identity(x):
     return x
diff --git 
a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2025-04-25-14-56-45.gh-issue-131798.NpcKub.rst
 
b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2025-04-25-14-56-45.gh-issue-131798.NpcKub.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..8214870284ed93
--- /dev/null
+++ 
b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2025-04-25-14-56-45.gh-issue-131798.NpcKub.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Allow the JIT to remove int guards after ``_CALL_LEN`` by setting the return 
type to int. Patch by Diego Russo
diff --git a/Python/optimizer_bytecodes.c b/Python/optimizer_bytecodes.c
index ff2830d3003c61..040e54479b722a 100644
--- a/Python/optimizer_bytecodes.c
+++ b/Python/optimizer_bytecodes.c
@@ -1055,6 +1055,10 @@ dummy_func(void) {
         sym_set_const(callable, (PyObject *)&PyUnicode_Type);
     }
 
+    op(_CALL_LEN, (callable[1], self_or_null[1], args[oparg] -- res)) {
+        res = sym_new_type(ctx, &PyLong_Type);
+    }
+
 // END BYTECODES //
 
 }
diff --git a/Python/optimizer_cases.c.h b/Python/optimizer_cases.c.h
index 303e402b759530..9a5a362ec199a9 100644
--- a/Python/optimizer_cases.c.h
+++ b/Python/optimizer_cases.c.h
@@ -2014,7 +2014,7 @@
 
         case _CALL_LEN: {
             JitOptSymbol *res;
-            res = sym_new_not_null(ctx);
+            res = sym_new_type(ctx, &PyLong_Type);
             stack_pointer[-2 - oparg] = res;
             stack_pointer += -1 - oparg;
             assert(WITHIN_STACK_BOUNDS());

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