[Cython] CEP1000: Native dispatch through callables

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn
<d.s.seljebotn at astro.uio.no> wrote:
> I'll go one further: Intern Python bytes objects. It's just a PyObject*, but
> it's *required* (or just strongly encouraged) to have gone through
>
> sig = sys.modules['_nativecall']['interned_db'].setdefault(sig, sig)
>
> Obviously in a PEP you'd have a C-API function for such interning
> (completely standalone utility). Performance of interning operation itself
> doesn't matter...
>
> Unless CPython has interning features itself, like in Java? Was that present
> back in the day and then ripped out?

http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#intern ? (C API:
PyString_InternInPlace, moved from __builtin__.intern to sys.intern in
Py3.)

- N