[Python-Dev] gc ideas -- sparse memory

[Terry Reedy]

On 12/3/2010 7:46 PM, James Y Knight wrote:

> Sure they are. This is what Java provides you, for example. If you
> have fixed, but potentially non-unique ids (in Java you get this
> using "identityHashCode()"), you can still make an identity

I do not see the point of calling a (non-unique) hash value the identity

> hashtable. You simply need to *also* check using "is" that the two

In Python, that unique isness is the identify.

(a is b) == (id(a) == id(b)) by definition.

> objects really are the same one after finding the hash bin using id.

by using the hash value, which is how Python dict operate.

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Terry Jan Reedy