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Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Antoine Pitrou <pitrou@free.fr> added the comment:
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>> 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.
That's not the case.
The patch breaks C API + binary compatibility for an essential Python
type - that's not something you can easily undo. |
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2009-06-02 13:53:38 | lemburg | set | recipients:
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