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[Exception Handling](exception_handling.md)

[Adaptive Instruction Families](adaptive.md)
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## Families of instructions

The core part of PEP 659 (specializing adaptive interpreter) is the families
of instructions that perform the adaptive specialization.
The core part of [PEP 659](https://peps.python.org/pep-0659/)
(specializing adaptive interpreter) is the families of
instructions that perform the adaptive specialization.

A family of instructions has the following fundamental properties:

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## Example family

The `LOAD_GLOBAL` instruction (in Python/bytecodes.c) already has an adaptive
family that serves as a relatively simple example.
The `LOAD_GLOBAL` instruction (in
[Python/bytecodes.c](https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Python/bytecodes.c)
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already has an adaptive family that serves as a relatively simple example.

The `LOAD_GLOBAL` instruction performs adaptive specialization,
calling `_Py_Specialize_LoadGlobal()` when the counter reaches zero.
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