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Eric Snow 4f71f1680d
[3.12] gh-106931: Intern Statically Allocated Strings Globally (gh-107272) (gh-110713)
We tried this before with a dict and for all interned strings.  That ran into problems due to interpreter isolation.  However, exclusively using a per-interpreter cache caused some inconsistency that can eliminate the benefit of interning.  Here we circle back to using a global cache, but only for statically allocated strings.  We also use a more-basic _Py_hashtable_t for that global cache instead of a dict.

Ideally we would only have the global cache, but the optional isolation of each interpreter's allocator means that a non-static string object must not outlive its interpreter.  Thus we would have to store a copy of each such interned string in the global cache, tied to the main interpreter.

(cherry-picked from commit b72947a8d2)
2023-11-27 23:51:12 +00:00
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python3.12.abi [3.12] gh-106931: Intern Statically Allocated Strings Globally (gh-107272) (gh-110713) 2023-11-27 23:51:12 +00:00
refcounts.dat gh-101578: Amend exception docs (#102057) 2023-02-21 09:15:49 +01:00
stable_abi.dat gh-103509: PEP 697 -- Limited C API for Extending Opaque Types (GH-103511) 2023-05-04 09:56:53 +02:00