Neal Norwitz wrote: > Part of this is done, but very differently in that all strings used in > code objects are interned (stored in a dictionary
And since two interned strings can be compared by pointer identity, I don't see how this differs significantly from the "unique integer" idea. If the integers were used to directly index an array instead of being used as dict keys, it might make a difference. The cost would be that every namespace would need to be as big as the number of names in existence, with most of them being extremely sparse. -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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
