[XML-SIG] string interning

[Alexandre Fayolle]

On 11 Sep 2001, Lars Marius Garshol wrote:

> I think the actual benefit in Python is small, but we kept this
> property anyway. I found that xmlproc was a little bit faster when I
> called intern() on all names, so I used it.

Oh. Silly me. I had completely missed the built-in intern() function in
python (http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/built-in-funcs.html#l2h-180)

I'll keep this in mind for future developments. 

Thanks. 

Alexandre Fayolle
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