> > Incidentally, to slightly reduce the overhead the unicode objects, > > there's this proposal: http://bugs.python.org/issue1943 > > I wonder what aspects of this patch and discussion should be integrated > into the PEP. The notion of allocating the memory in the same block is > already considered in the PEP; what else might be relevant?
Ok, I'm sorry for not reading the PEP carefully enough, then. The patch does a couple of other tweaks such as making "state" a char rather than an int, and changing the freelist algorithm. But the latter doesn't need to be spelled out in a PEP anyway. 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
