[issue40080] Stripping annotations out as a new optimization mode

[Raymond Hettinger]

Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> added the comment:

Duplicate of https://bugs.python.org/issue3646

This was rejected because it breaks functools.singledispatch(), typing.NamedTuple(), and dataclasses.dataclass().  Also the space savings was negligible -- typically take much less space than for docstrings because the annotations dict consists of pointers to existing objects.

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nosy: +rhettinger
resolution:  -> duplicate
stage:  -> resolved
status: open -> closed

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