text_combined: guido van rossum hoaufpythonorg without implementation supporting profile data nobody going believe name lookup faster builtin dict type cpython note names seen parser already interned seem proposing already implemented wed mar 5 2008 227 pm henrik vendelbo wrote appears make mapping mechanisms faster python make significant overall speed improvements also think proposed concept could add flexibility persistence formats rmi interfaces basic idea constant string type interpreter globally unique hash original constant created manner different string constants tracked handled differently interpreter obviously object attribute references done dot operator guess interpreter already efficient mapping mechanism must crossover __getattr__ etc map sort used imagine global namespace translate attribute names integers could used several purposes interpreter well application exchanging objects applications imagine expressions supported attrnamestring creates attrname value string intattrname gets hash value stringattrname gets string value hope makes sense henrik ps originally thought javascript context forgive would make little difference python _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevguido40pythonorg guido van rossum home page httpwwwpythonorgguido _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom thu 07 aug 2008 030153 0700 pythondev python 3000 special type object attributes map keys