Re: [Python-Dev] The memo of pickle

I hope Oren resumes his crusade to make interned strings follow the same refcount rules as everything else, and then we wouldn't have this fear of interning. BTW, nobody yet has reported any code where "indirect interning" pays -- or even triggers once in a non-eating-its-own-tail way.

Maybe we should just drop indirect interning then. It can save 31 bits per string object, right? How to collect those savings? --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)