From 2682e4cb48e306d38d64f87a457e2318be2bf875 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Valentin Lorentz <progval+git@progval.net>
Date: Sun, 17 May 2020 21:09:00 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Seen, ChannelUserDictionary: Internalize channel names.

They are not many of them, but they are used a lot so they take
up a surprising amount of memory.
---
 plugins/Seen/plugin.py | 1 +
 plugins/__init__.py    | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/plugins/Seen/plugin.py b/plugins/Seen/plugin.py
index ffb3ca32d..4b736b272 100644
--- a/plugins/Seen/plugin.py
+++ b/plugins/Seen/plugin.py
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ class SeenDB(plugins.ChannelUserDB):
 
     def update(self, channel, nickOrId, saying):
         seen = time.time()
+        channel = sys.intern(channel)
         self[channel, nickOrId] = (seen, saying)
         self[channel, '<last>'] = (seen, saying)
 
diff --git a/plugins/__init__.py b/plugins/__init__.py
index aec351704..cde2ef482 100644
--- a/plugins/__init__.py
+++ b/plugins/__init__.py
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 import gc
 import os
 import csv
+import sys
 import time
 import codecs
 import string
@@ -188,6 +189,7 @@ class ChannelUserDictionary(collections.abc.MutableMapping):
 
     def __setitem__(self, key, v):
         (channel, id) = key
+        channel = sys.intern(channel)
         if channel not in self.channels:
             self.channels[channel] = self.IdDict()
         self.channels[channel][id] = v
@@ -242,6 +244,7 @@ class ChannelUserDB(ChannelUserDictionary):
                     except ValueError:
                         # We'll skip over this so, say, nicks can be kept here.
                         pass
+                    channel = sys.intern(channel)
                     v = self.deserialize(channel, id, t)
                     self[channel, id] = v
                 except Exception as e: