[Python-Dev] Re: PEP: Deferred Evaluation Of Annotations Using Descriptors

On 12/01/21 11:32 am, Łukasz Langa wrote:

EdgeDB uses stringified annotations exclusively which minimizes runtime memory usage of annotations because those strings are pretty much all ASCII and many can be interned.

946 -> s_schema.Schema 362 -> str 298 -> sd.CommandContext

Seems to me the code objects for those would be identical wherever they're used, and so could be cached and re-used the same way as interned strings. -- Greg