[Python-Dev] PEP 509: Add a private version to dict

[Glenn Linderman]

On 1/20/2016 10:36 AM, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:
>> Why can't you simply use the id of the dict object as the globally unique
>> >dict ID? It's already globally unique amongst all Python objects which makes
>> >it inherently unique amongst dicts.
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> Brett, you need two things - the ID of the dict and the version tag.
> What we do in pypy is we have a small object (called, surprisingly,
> VersionTag()) and we use the ID of that. That way you can change the
> version id of an existing dict and have only one field.
For the reuse case, can't you simply keep the ma_version "live" in dict 
items on the free list, rather than starting over at (presumably) 0 ?  
Then if the dict is reused, it bumps the ma_version, and the fallback 
code goes on with (presumably) relocating the original dict (oops, it's 
gone), and dealing with the fallout.

Then you can use the regular dict id as the globally unique dict id?  
And only need the one uint64, rather than a separately allocated extra 
pair of uint64?
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