alt Hacker NewsAh, the `__slots__` feature makes it make a lot more sense.
> Sorry, that sounds a bit vague and not too different from what CPython already is doing.
With slots being available, I can see where I was misled. I went looking for a type structure that modeled the dynamic properties on an object which would be used as a typeguard, but the class itself functions as that if you're restricting the optimization to slotted properties.
Appreciate the clarfication!
(Note that this optimization can also trigger for plain classes (that’s LOAD_ATTR_INSTANCE_VALUE), it just needs a bit more guards and is only useful if you don’t abuse instances being dynamic objects. I just used slots as the most obvious example, but there are lots of different op specializations since like 3.11)