Well, if you followed the link under the quoted text, you would get the next sentence,
> The new objects make it possible to store information in efficient internal forms and avoid the constant translations to and from strings that occurred with the old interpreter.
No. The quoted text says nothing about the value semantics, only the representation…
Well, if you followed the link under the quoted text, you would get the next sentence,
> The new objects make it possible to store information in efficient internal forms and avoid the constant translations to and from strings that occurred with the old interpreter.
Huh? I know how it works. My point is different than the representation.