Disable automatic interning

R. David Murray rdmurray at bitdance.com
Wed Mar 18 14:13:40 EDT 2009


George Sakkis <george.sakkis at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to turn off (either globally or explicitly per
> instance) the automatic interning optimization that happens for small
> integers and strings (and perhaps other types) ? I tried several
> workarounds but nothing worked:

No.  It's an implementation detail.

What use case do you have for wanting to disable it?

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R. David Murray           http://www.bitdance.com




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