[Python-Dev] Rethinking intern() and its data structure (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Apr 9 22:13:40 CEST 2009

I don't have numbers on how much that would improve CPU times, I would imagine improving 'intern()' would impact import times more than run times, simply because import time is interning a lot of strings.

Though honestly, Bazaar would really like this, because startup overhead for us is almost 400ms to 'do nothing', which is a lot for a command line app.

Maybe I misunderstand your proposed change: how could the representation of the interning dict possibly change the runtime of interning? (let alone significantly)

Regards, Martin

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