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Description
We would ideally have bytecodes.c as the single source of truth about opcodes. So opcode.py and the code generated from it should be replaced by alternatives from the cases_generator, if we can.
Linked PRs
- gh-105481: add flags to each instr in the opcode metadata table, to replace opcode.hasarg/hasname/hasconst #105482
- gh-105481: add pseudo-instructions to the cases DSL #105506
- gh-105481: Fix types and bug for pseudos #105788
- gh-105481: add HAS_JUMP flag to opcode metadata #105791
- gh-105481: remove HAS_ARG, HAS_CONST, IS_JUMP_OPCODE, IS_PSEUDO_OPCODE and replace by their new versions #105865
- gh-105481: generate _specializations and _specialized_instructions from bytecodes.c #105913
- gh-105481: refactor instr flag related code into a new InstructionFlags class #105950
- gh-105481: move Python/opcode_metadata.h to Include/internal/pycore_opcode_metadata.h #106673
- gh-105481: expose opcode metadata via the _opcode module #106688
- gh-105481: Generate the opcode lists in dis from data extracted from bytecodes.c #106758
- gh-105481: do not auto-generate pycore_intrinsics.h #106913
- gh-105481: add OPCODE_IS_INSTRUMENTED (generated from bytecodes.c) to replace MIN_INSTRUMENTED_OPCODE (defined in opcode.py) #107276
- gh-105481: remove dependency of _inline_cache_entries on opname #107339
- gh-105481: the ENABLE_SPECIALIZATION flag does not need to be generated by the build script, or exposed in opcode.py #107534
- gh-105481: combine regen-opcode-targets with regen-opcode to avoid calculating the specialized opcodes in two places #107540
- gh-105481: simplify definition of pseudo ops in Lib/opcode.py #107561
- GH-105481: Mark more files as generated #107598
- gh-105481: split opcode_ids.h out of opcode.h so that it can be generated separately #107866
- gh-105481: reduce repetition in opcode metadata generation code #107942
- gh-105481: generate op IDs from bytecode.c instead of hard coding them in opcode.py #107971
- gh-105481: generate _PyOpcode_Deopt and _PyOpcode_OpName in generate_cases instead of generate_opcode_h #108025
- gh-105481: fix out of date comment #108079
- gh-105481: opcode.h is no longer generated during the build #108080
- gh-105481: remove regen-opcode. Generated _PyOpcode_Caches in regen-cases. #108367