Re: [Python-ideas] One obvious way to do interning [Was: Retrieve an arbitrary element from a set without removing it]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 1:29 PM, John Arbash Meinel <john@arbash-meinel.com> wrote: ..

Anyway, I've had pretty good results, and some significant memory savings at times. (The string interned() dict is often the largest single object. Once you get 500k strings in there, it is something like 12MB all by itself. I've certainly seen it in the 24MB+ range.)

Please see http://bugs.python.org/issue7224 . It would be interesting to see if it make a difference to any of those 24MB+ interned string dictionary applications.