[issue26314] interned strings are stored in a dict, a set would use less memory

[Raymond Hettinger]

Raymond Hettinger added the comment:

I agree with Serhiy that this should not be done.   IIRC, there were some discussions on python-dev or python-ideas about using sets for interning and the judgment was the dicts are conceptually the right type and that using sets would be hack.  The other thought was that while a set is generally two-thirds the size of dict, the bulk of the space is for the interned strings themselves.

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assignee:  -> rhettinger

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