Mark immutable pyclasses as frozen #1861
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The
Regex
andToken
class are both immutable and can be trivially marked as frozen. The avoids the cost of atomic reference counting for any reads in Python on borrowed data.It's likely that in the future
frozen
will become the default for pyclasses.See #1860 (comment) and reply for more details.