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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Remove `DELETE_NAME` instruction","articleBody":"# Feature or enhancement\n\n### Proposal:\n\nWith a couple of small modifications to `STORE_NAME` it can be made to handle a `NULL` value.\nThen `DELETE_NAME`  can be replaced with `PUSH_NULL; STORE_NAME`\n\n`STORE_NAME` is executed about 1 in 100k instructions and `DELETE_NAME` about 1 in a billion according to our stats, so we can save an opcode with no performance impact.\n\n### Has this already been discussed elsewhere?\n\nThis is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere\n\n### Links to previous discussion of this feature:\n\n_No response_\n\n\u003c!-- gh-linked-prs --\u003e\n### Linked PRs\n* gh-146006\n\u003c!-- /gh-linked-prs --\u003e\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/markshannon","@type":"Person","name":"markshannon"},"datePublished":"2026-03-12T11:28:37.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":0},"url":"https://github.com/145854/cpython/issues/145854"}