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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Apr 10 03:22:10 CEST 2009


John Arbash Meinel wrote:

And the way intern is currently written, there is a third cost when the item doesn't exist yet, which is another lookup to insert the object.

That's even rarer still, since it only happens the first time you load a piece of code that uses a given variable name anywhere in any module.

-- Greg



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