gh-118527: Use deferred reference counting for C functions on modules (#118529)

This addresses a scaling bottleneck in the free-threaded build when
calling functions like `math.floor()` concurrently from multiple
threads.

diff --git a/Objects/moduleobject.c b/Objects/moduleobject.c
index d877edaf5453e10d1e279953bba1f5d5adfb506e..a570b13e1208637d2413a18a246eb72c1314d69f 100644 (file)
--- a/Objects/moduleobject.c
+++ b/Objects/moduleobject.c
@@ -183,6 +183,7 @@ _add_methods_to_object(PyObject *module, PyObject *name, PyMethodDef *functions)
         if (func == NULL) {
             return -1;
         }
+        _PyObject_SetDeferredRefcount(func);
         if (PyObject_SetAttrString(module, fdef->ml_name, func) != 0) {
             Py_DECREF(func);
             return -1;