>>>>> "GvR" == Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:
>> Seems to me that if the implementation of interning were smart
>> enough, it would be able to drop strings that were not
>> referenced from anywhere else. Maybe *that* would be a useful
>> feature to add?
GvR> An occasional run through the 'interned' dict (in
GvR> stringobject.c) looking for strings with refcount 2 would do
GvR> this. Maybe something for the gc module do handle as a
GvR> service whenever it runs its last-generation collection?
What about exposing _Py_ReleaseInternedStrings() to Python, say, from
the gc module?
-Barry
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