Internals of interning strings

[Michael Hudson]

"Jason Stokes" <jstok at bluedog.apana.org.au> writes:

> But those are *different* string objects.  The optimization we're
> discussing affects only *the same* string object being interned
> several times.

Oh, right.  But that's not what interning strings is for...

Cheers,
M.

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