Hello colleague, On Wednesday, August 17, 2016 at 3:01:37 PM UTC+2, Oliver Schulz wrote: > > > unless they just became numbers to index into a global array somewhere > > I had assumed that this is basically what Symbols (being interned strings) > are. >
I might write something stupid here, but for me Symbols are constants at compile time. So this "intered strings" behaviour is part of generating code, not running it. I looked at a similar problem - strings as keys in Dicts with frequent access - and think a workaround is somewhere in the area of hash and object_id. As last resort i thought about implementing a fast string->Int64 hash...
