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by zokier 4661 days ago
If not, I would recommend submitting a bug to PyPy.
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kingkilr 4661 days ago
No it doesn't, and that heuristic isn't possible. It's based on looking at the reference counting and mutating an immutable object. It's pretty awful.
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ewoodrich 4661 days ago
If GP is referring to CPython patch #980695, it appears to be available in PyPy, but requires an additional flag.

"We have it, just not enabled by default. --objspace-with-strbuf I think" [1]

[1] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-February/1...

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