On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:08:01 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > One change I would propose is that rather than hiding flags in the low > order bits of the str pointer, we expand the use of the existing > "state" field to cover the representation information in addition to > the interning information.
+1, by the way. The "state" field has many bits available (even if we decide to make it a char rather than an int). Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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