Christian Tismer <tismer <at> stackless.com> writes: > > Or was it maybe to just keep the string layout on many > common platforms compatible, in order to save rebuilding > so many windows extension modules? > > If the latter is true and the only reason, I vote for reclaiming > the three bytes. Maybe it saves a tree or two. Maybe it hurts > very little if done for Python 3000. > > In any case, use the version that saves the most energy.
Well, if you want to make the str type in py3k smaller, there is a more massive saving to be done by making it a PyVarObject, rather than allocating the storage separately. A patch has existed for that for a long time now, it probably needs updating if anyone is interested: http://bugs.python.org/issue1943 _______________________________________________ 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
