From 71d91089b6ca3d761774d3fc542f3cf1d98e435f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hiroshi Miura <miurahr@linux.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 00:38:48 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] unihandecode: introduce borg to reduce memory consumption

---
 src/calibre/ebooks/unihandecode/pykakasi/h2a.py   | 8 ++++++++
 src/calibre/ebooks/unihandecode/pykakasi/jisyo.py | 8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/unihandecode/pykakasi/h2a.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/unihandecode/pykakasi/h2a.py
index d4da21ba42..83bb6a8d6a 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/unihandecode/pykakasi/h2a.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/unihandecode/pykakasi/h2a.py
@@ -163,6 +163,14 @@ class H2a (object):
         u"\u3093\u304a":"n'o",
     }
 
+# this class is Borg
+    _shared_state = {}
+
+    def __new__(cls, *p, **k):
+        self = object.__new__(cls, *p, **k)
+        self.__dict__ = cls._shared_state
+        return self
+
     def isHiragana(self, char):
         return ( 0x3040 < ord(char) and ord(char) < 0x3094)
 
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/unihandecode/pykakasi/jisyo.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/unihandecode/pykakasi/jisyo.py
index 3d6d1be173..d56e409ee5 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/unihandecode/pykakasi/jisyo.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/unihandecode/pykakasi/jisyo.py
@@ -15,6 +15,14 @@ class jisyo (object):
     kanadict = None
     jisyo_table = {}
 
+# this class is Borg
+    _shared_state = {}
+
+    def __new__(cls, *p, **k):
+        self = object.__new__(cls, *p, **k)
+        self.__dict__ = cls._shared_state
+        return self
+
     def __init__(self):
         if self.kanwadict is None:
             dictpath = resources.get_path(os.path.join('localization','pykakasi','kanwadict2.db'))