[Python-Dev] Rethinking intern() and its data structure

[Collin Winter]

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:34 AM, John Arbash Meinel
<john.arbash.meinel at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
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>>> Anyway, I the internals of intern() could be done a bit better. Here are
>>> some concrete things:
>>>
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>> [snip]
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>> Memory usage is definitely something we're interested in improving.
>> Since you've already looked at this in some detail, could you try
>> implementing one or two of your ideas and see if it makes a difference
>> in memory consumption? Changing from a dict to a set looks promising,
>> and should be a fairly self-contained way of starting on this. If it
>> works, please post the patch on http://bugs.python.org with your
>> results and assign it to me for review.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Collin Winter
>>
> (I did end up subscribing, just with a different email address :)
>
> What is the best branch to start working from? "trunk"?

That's a good place to start, yes. If the idea works well, we'll want
to port it to the py3k branch, too, but that can wait.

Collin