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    This patch originated from an idea by Martin v. Loewis who submitted a · 8155e0e5
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    patch for sharing single character Unicode objects.
    
    Martin's patch had to be reworked in a number of ways to take Unicode
    resizing into consideration as well. Here's what the updated patch
    implements:
    
    * Single character Unicode strings in the Latin-1 range are shared
      (not only ASCII chars as in Martin's original patch).
    
    * The ASCII and Latin-1 codecs make use of this optimization,
      providing a noticable speedup for single character strings. Most
      Unicode methods can use the optimization as well (by virtue
      of using PyUnicode_FromUnicode()).
    
    * Some code cleanup was done (replacing memcpy with Py_UNICODE_COPY)
    
    * The PyUnicode_Resize() can now also handle the case of resizing
      unicode_empty which previously resulted in an error.
    
    * Modified the internal API _PyUnicode_Resize() and
      the public PyUnicode_Resize() API to handle references to
      shared objects correctly. The _PyUnicode_Resize() signature
      changed due to this.
    
    * Callers of PyUnicode_FromUnicode() may now only modify the Unicode
      object contents of the returned object in case they called the API
      with NULL as content template.
    
    Note that even though this patch passes the regression tests, there
    may still be subtle bugs in the sharing code.
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