The size of Python objects is kind of shocking, yeah. I wonder how hard it'd be to at least get rid of the refcount. I like your idea of using slices. So, a new

The size of Python objects is kind of shocking, yeah. I wonder how hard it'd be to at least get rid of the refcount. I like your idea of using slices. So, a new PyObject subtype that pretends to be a string but holds a couple of indices and a pointer to the 'real' string? I guess you could leave the latter implicit, hopefully. There's a good chance I'll still be around in late May. See you then!