dev call 20221201

Dev Call: 1 December 2022

Present

TBD

Agenda

• Next release 0.9: We need to decide on a few things
  • Issue 343: Use fixed-width integers in the ABI.
  • Issue 354: Use Python class names for context handles.
  • Issue 355: Make expected encoding of C strings explicit.
  • The bytes / string builder API is a possible project for interns. It won't certainly make it into 0.9.
• Decide on PRs:
  • Debug mode: Check correct context usage
  • HPy ABI version verification
  • Exact type checks with HPyType_Check
  • Multi-phase module init
  • Module-state support
• Merged PRs:
  • Enable slots HPy_tp_str and HPy_tp_hash.
  • HPyBytes_AsString should return const char pointer.
  • Make HPy compatible with Python 3.11
  • Introduce Capsule API
  • Improve API/implementation for HPyCapsule_Destructor
  • Add some more built-in types/objects to context
  • Introduce HPy_DelAttr(_s) and HPy_DelItem(_i/_s)
  • Introduce HPy trace mode
  • Use CPython FASTCALL to optimise hpy function call
  • Introduce the Hybrid ABI
• Status updates