On Aug 31, 2005, at 10:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Tim> One of the big disadvantages of string views is that they > need to > Tim> keep the original object around, no matter how big it is. > But in > Tim> the case of partition, much of the time the original string > Tim> survives for at least a similar period to the partitions. > > Not necessarily. Presumably a string view would reference another > string > object's data buffer. A possible optimization would be to convert > from a > view to a normal string once the original strings' refcount dropped > to one, > particularly if the view's size was substantially smaller than that > of the > original string.
I suspect this would be a pessimization most of the time, as it would require keeping a list of pointers to all the views referencing the string object. James _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
