Message88585
> There were a number of patches to support sharing of data between
> unicode objects. (By Larry Hastings?) They were rejected because (a)
> they were complicated, and (b) it was possible to provoke pathological
> memory retention.
Yes, it's the "lazy strings" patches by Larry Hastings (it was for str,
not unicode, though). Issues are #1590352 and #1569040 (and perhaps
others).
In any case, as I said, it is easy to switch back to the old
representation, so I don't think it is an argument to block this patch. |
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2009-05-30 22:47:58 | pitrou | set | recipients:
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2009-05-30 22:47:57 | pitrou | link | issue1943 messages |
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