[Python-Dev] Alternative implementation of string interning

Gordon McMillan gmcm@hypernet.com
Mon, 1 Jul 2002 18:16:30 -0400


On 1 Jul 2002 at 17:12, Tim Peters wrote:

> ...  I don't know how many
> extension modules still implicitly rely on indirect
> interning for a speed boost.  

I bet most extension authors have been completely
ignorant of it, which makes the answer "most of
them" <wink>.

-- Gordon
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