> I don't have numbers on how much that would improve CPU times, I would > imagine improving 'intern()' would impact import times more than run > times, simply because import time is interning a *lot* of strings. > > Though honestly, Bazaar would really like this, because startup overhead > for us is almost 400ms to 'do nothing', which is a lot for a command > line app.
Maybe I misunderstand your proposed change: how could the representation of the interning dict possibly change the runtime of interning? (let alone significantly) Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
