Ruff Switches Ruff_python_ast::Name To 16-Byte CharStr For Memory Savings
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You need to be reviewing your string design at least annually
- Reduced our small string size from from 24-bytes inline to 16-bytes inline. Much better tradeoff after analyzing a bunch of Python code (and in turn reduced the size of various AST nodes).
What I ended up with...
- Use reference-counting for heap-allocated strings so that we can cheaply clone / share for longer names that are reused across a given file.