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Author loewis
Recipients Arach, Arfrever, Huzaifa.Sidhpurwala, Jim.Jewett, Mark.Shannon, PaulMcMillan, Zhiping.Deng, alex, barry, benjamin.peterson, christian.heimes, dmalcolm, eric.araujo, eric.snow, fx5, georg.brandl, grahamd, gregory.p.smith, gvanrossum, gz, jcea, lemburg, loewis, mark.dickinson, neologix, pitrou, skrah, terry.reedy, tim.peters, v+python, vstinner, zbysz
Date 2012-01-27.19:32:10
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> I *am* a bit concerned that the possible contents of a dictentry
> change; this could cause easily-missed-in-testing breakage for
> anything that treats table as an array.

This is indeed a concern: the new code needs to be exercised.
I came up with a Py_REDUCE_HASH #define; if set, the dict will only
use the lowest 3 bits of the hash, producing plenty collisions.
In that mode, the branch currently doesn't work at all due to the
remaining bugs.
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2012-01-27 19:32:11loewissetrecipients: + loewis, lemburg, gvanrossum, tim.peters, barry, georg.brandl, terry.reedy, gregory.p.smith, jcea, mark.dickinson, pitrou, vstinner, christian.heimes, benjamin.peterson, eric.araujo, grahamd, Arfrever, v+python, alex, zbysz, skrah, dmalcolm, gz, neologix, Arach, Mark.Shannon, eric.snow, Zhiping.Deng, Huzaifa.Sidhpurwala, Jim.Jewett, PaulMcMillan, fx5
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