[issue14422] Pack PyASCIIObject fields to reduce memory consumption of pure ASCII strings

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor <victor.stinner at gmail.com> added the comment:

> I consider it important that the data block of a string is well-aligned.

I suppose that it doesn't matter for latin1, but it can be a problem for UCS-2 and UCS-4. There are more drawbacks than advantages, so I agree to close this issue. And let's focus on enabling optimizations based on memory alignement like #14419 :-)

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resolution:  -> wont fix
status: open -> closed

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