Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment: Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > >> There were a number of patches to support sharing of data between >> unicode objects. (By Larry Hastings?) They were rejected because (a) >> they were complicated, and (b) it was possible to provoke pathological >> memory retention. > > Yes, it's the "lazy strings" patches by Larry Hastings (it was for str, > not unicode, though). Issues are #1590352 and #1569040 (and perhaps > others). > > In any case, as I said, it is easy to switch back to the old > representation, so I don't think it is an argument to block this patch.
That's not the case. The patch breaks C API + binary compatibility for an essential Python type - that's not something you can easily undo. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1943> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
