... but I'm curious.
Hi Guido,
while working on Psyco, I stumbled over a log entry in modsupport.h:
19-Aug-2002 GvR 1012 Changes to string object struct for
interning changes, saving 3 bytes.
The change to stringobject was this (rev. 28308):
Before:
typedef struct {
PyObject_VAR_HEAD
long ob_shash;
PyObject *ob_sinterned;
char ob_sval[1];
} PyStringObject;
After:
typedef struct {
PyObject_VAR_HEAD
long ob_shash;
int ob_sstate;
char ob_sval[1];
} PyStringObject;
Now, the internals are very clear to me. What I don't understand
is where the three saved bytes should be.
Thinking of the time where this change was made, I cannot imagine
that this comment was about the size diff between pointer and int,
and if this was meant, I still don't get how this could save three
bytes?
With unaligned ob_sval, structure packing and ob_sstate being
unsigned char one could save 3 bytes, but we don't do that.
Well, as said, this is no important question. I am just asking
myself what I don't see here, or if the comment is just sub-optimal :-)
all the best -- chris
p.s.: won't make it to PyCon this time, see you soon at the piggies
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