Support efficient sharing of all immutable builtins in sub interpreters
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interpreter-core
topic-subinterpreters
type-feature
- Dominant language
- Python
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Description
Feature or enhancement
Proposal:
The interpreters API already supports efficiently sharing of most immutable builtins.
I think it would be useful to extend support to the rest as well:
-
frozensetsimilar to how tuples are handled (#111628) -
frozendictas proposed in #148234 -
complex#157051 - maybe
slice? - maybe
range? -
NotImplementedandEllipsisas implemented in #118965 though might be less useful in practice
Has this already been discussed elsewhere?
This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere
Links to previous discussion of this feature:
No response
Linked PRs
- gh-157051
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Research direction
Start with the interpreters API sharing-objects documentation and the linked discussions for #111628, #148234, #157051, and #118965. Determine which immutable builtins remain unsupported and whether each proposal is still in scope; done means the agreed objects are efficiently shareable with appropriate coverage, without duplicating work already addressed by the linked PR.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100