PyEval_EvalFrame

[bretthall@gmail.com]

I see a C/python program that we're using spending a lot of time in
this function, far more than we think it should. What is it?

Thanks in advance! There seems to be nothing (but a bunch of stack
traces) when I google this.
Brett

[Tim Peters]

Re: PyEval_EvalFram e

[bretthall@gmail .com][color=blue]
> I see a C/python program that we're using spending a lot of time in
> this function, far more than we think it should. What is it?[/color]

PyEval_EvalFram e is the heart of the CPython interpreter: it's a very
large function that _implements_ the interpreter, marching through the
byte codes and executing them. You can't run Python code at all
without it.
[color=blue]
> Thanks in advance! There seems to be nothing (but a bunch of stack
> traces) when I google this.[/color]

It's rarely called directly, but is called indirectly by everything
that runs Python code.