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Nicholas Clark wrote: >>I think it needs to be clearly documented in 5.8.2 somewhere that we will >>at some point break binary compatibility, so people can prepare for it. > > 5.10.0 > > :-) > > [I think that answers the 5.8.n question - 5.8.n for all n > 1] Sounds good - thanks. >>Also, I don't actually care about 5.8.0/5.8.1 binary compatibility, as we >>didn't ship either version. I'd therefore like to permenantly enable the >>new behaviour so that I don't have to take a potential prrformance hit, and >>so I don't have to break binary compatibility in the future. Is there >>going to be a Configure flag to allow me to do this? > > There isn't one currently, and I can't see one going in before release. > Given that the cut in threshold is a linked list of 14 elements, it > shouldn't happen with regular data, and even with the rehashing may well > be faster than 5.8.1 I'm persuaded :-) Thanks! -- Alan Burlison --Thread Previous | Thread Next