Mark Shannon <m...@hotpy.org> added the comment:
Josh, I'm not really following the details of what you are saying. You claim "Key-sharing dictionaries were accepted largely without question because they didn't harm code that broke them". Is that true? I don't remember it that way. They were accepted because they saved memory and didn't slow things down. This issue, proposes the same thing: less memory used, no slower or a bit faster. If you are curious about how the first few instances of a class are handled, it is described here: https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/issues/72#issuecomment-920117600 Lazy attribute is not an issue here. How well keys are shared across instances depends on the dictionary implementation and was improved by https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/28520 It would be helpful if you could give specific examples where you think this change would use more memory or be slower. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue45340> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
