GH-90690: Remove `PRECALL` instruction by markshannon · Pull Request #92925 · python/cpython · GitHub
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The PRECALL instruction exists only to assist in specializing bound-methods and calls to Python classes.
We can get almost all the benefit ofr bound-methods by adding another specialization of CALL, and it looks like the best approach to specialize calls to Python classes is push a shim frame.
So, it makes sense to remove the PRECALL instruction.