[Python-Dev] optimization required: .format() is much slower than %

[Christian Heimes]

Antoine Pitrou schrieb:
> In order to avoid memory consumption issues there could be a centralized cache
> as for regular expressions. It makes it easier to handle eviction based on
> various parameters, and it saves a few bytes for string objects which are never
> used as a formatting template.

Good idea!
I suggest you hook into the string interning code and use a similar
approach.

Christian