[mypyc] Borrow references during chained attribute access #12805
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If we have multiple native attribute access operations in succession, we
can borrow the temporaries. This avoids an incref and decref. For
example, when evaluating
x.y.z
, we don't need to incref the resultof
x.y
.We need to make sure that the objects from which we borrow
values are not freed too early by adding
keep_alive
ops.This is part of a wider reference counting optimization workstream.
All the improvements together produced around 5% performance
improvement in the richards benchmark.
In carefully constructed microbenchmarks 50+% improvements are
possible.