On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:34 AM, John Arbash Meinel <john.arbash.mei...@gmail.com> wrote: > ... > >>> Anyway, I the internals of intern() could be done a bit better. Here are >>> some concrete things: >>> >> >> [snip] >> >> Memory usage is definitely something we're interested in improving. >> Since you've already looked at this in some detail, could you try >> implementing one or two of your ideas and see if it makes a difference >> in memory consumption? Changing from a dict to a set looks promising, >> and should be a fairly self-contained way of starting on this. If it >> works, please post the patch on http://bugs.python.org with your >> results and assign it to me for review. >> >> Thanks, >> Collin Winter >> > (I did end up subscribing, just with a different email address :) > > What is the best branch to start working from? "trunk"?
That's a good place to start, yes. If the idea works well, we'll want to port it to the py3k branch, too, but that can wait. Collin _______________________________________________ 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