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@chris-eibl chris-eibl commented Apr 3, 2026

And explain some musttail peculiarities.

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also on the optimization level. [Introducing additional scopes](https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3908593039bde9d4b591ab09919003ee57418d64/Python/bytecodes.c#L2526),
[extracting problematic code paths into a separate function](https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/143068/files#diff-729a985b0cb8b431cb291f1edb561bbbfea22e3f8c262451cd83328a0936a342R3724)
or [returning a pointer instead of taking it as an output parameter](https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3908593039bde9d4b591ab09919003ee57418d64/Include/internal/pycore_ceval.h#L489-L492)
is particularly helpful to the MSVC compiler in this regard. Using `restrict` is another (currently unused) remedy.
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It would be better to place this as a bullet list:

The following remedies work:
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[preserve_none](https://clang.llvm.org/docs/AttributeReference.html#preserve-none)
calling convention between the small C functions that implement individual Python opcodes.

Not all compilers support these and if they do not all targets might be supported (for example,
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See #148036 for a (current) list of supported MSVC configurations.

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