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SF patch 576101, by Oren Tirosh: alternative implementation of

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interning.  I modified Oren's patch significantly, but the basic idea
and most of the implementation is unchanged.  Interned strings created
with PyString_InternInPlace() are now mortal, and you must keep a
reference to the resulting string around; use the new function
PyString_InternImmortal() to create immortal interned strings.
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Guido van Rossum 2002-08-19 21:43:18 +00:00
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Include/stringobject.h
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@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ functions should be applied to nil objects.
*/
/* Caching the hash (ob_shash) saves recalculation of a string's hash value.
Interning strings (ob_sinterned) tries to ensure that only one string
Interning strings (ob_sstate) tries to ensure that only one string
object with a given value exists, so equality tests can be one pointer
comparison. This is generally restricted to strings that "look like"
Python identifiers, although the intern() builtin can be used to force
@ -35,10 +35,14 @@ functions should be applied to nil objects.
typedef struct {
PyObject_VAR_HEAD
long ob_shash;
PyObject *ob_sinterned;
int ob_sstate;
char ob_sval[1];
} PyStringObject;
#define SSTATE_NOT_INTERNED 0
#define SSTATE_INTERNED_MORTAL 1
#define SSTATE_INTERNED_IMMORTAL 2
PyAPI_DATA(PyTypeObject) PyBaseString_Type;
PyAPI_DATA(PyTypeObject) PyString_Type;
@ -66,9 +70,13 @@ extern DL_IMPORT(PyObject *) PyString_DecodeEscape(const char *, int,
const char *);
PyAPI_FUNC(void) PyString_InternInPlace(PyObject **);
PyAPI_FUNC(void) PyString_InternImmortal(PyObject **);
PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyString_InternFromString(const char *);
PyAPI_FUNC(void) _Py_ReleaseInternedStrings(void);
/* Use only if you know it's a string */
#define PyString_CHECK_INTERNED(op) (((PyStringObject *)(op))->ob_sstate)
/* Macro, trading safety for speed */
#define PyString_AS_STRING(op) (((PyStringObject *)(op))->ob_sval)
#define PyString_GET_SIZE(op) (((PyStringObject *)(op))->ob_size)