[Python-Dev] Store startup modules as C structures for 20%+ startup speed improvement? (original) (raw)

Stefan Behnel stefan_ml at behnel.de
Fri Sep 21 14:36:37 EDT 2018

Guido van Rossum schrieb am 21.09.2018 um 19:35:

Though now I start worrying about interned strings. That's a concept that's a little closer to being a feature.

True. While there's the general '"ab"+"cd" is (not) "abcd"' caveat, I'm sure quite a bit of code out there assumes that parsed identifiers in a module, such as the names of functions and classes, are interned, since this was often communicated. And in fact, explicitly interning the same name might return a different string object with this change than what's in the module/class dict.

Stefan

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