[3.12] gh-106931: Intern Statically Allocated Strings Globally (gh-107272) #110713
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…ythongh-107272) We tried this before with a dict and for all interned strings. That ran into problems due to interpreter isolation. However, exclusively using a per-interpreter cache caused some inconsistency that can eliminate the benefit of interning. Here we circle back to using a global cache, but only for statically allocated strings. We also use a more-basic _Py_hashtable_t for that global cache instead of a dict. Ideally we would only have the global cache, but the optional isolation of each interpreter's allocator means that a non-static string object must not outlive its interpreter. Thus we would have to store a copy of each such interned string in the global cache, tied to the main interpreter. (cherry-picked from commit b72947a)
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Skip tests if no interpreters module.gh-110713 added some tests that use the interpreters module but did not accommodated builds that don't support subinterpreters (incl. an interpreters module). We fix that here by catching ImportError and skipping tests as appropriate.
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We tried this before with a dict and for all interned strings. That ran into problems due to interpreter isolation. However, exclusively using a per-interpreter cache caused some inconsistency that can eliminate the benefit of interning. Here we circle back to using a global cache, but only for statically allocated strings. We also use a more-basic _Py_hashtable_t for that global cache instead of a dict.
Ideally we would only have the global cache, but the optional isolation of each interpreter's allocator means that a non-static string object must not outlive its interpreter. Thus we would have to store a copy of each such interned string in the global cache, tied to the main interpreter.
(cherry-picked from commit b72947a)
(This supersedes gh-107358.)