On Oct 15, 2010, at 12:40 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: >2010/10/15 Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com>: >> After rereading http://bugs.python.org/issue9778 , I'm growing concerned >> about an impending ABI freeze before the core devs find time to fix the >> 32-bit hash limitation. >> ISTM, the use of 64-bit builds is growing in popularity. It was be a bummer >> to have a locked-in an effective size limit for dictionaries and sets >> because >> the API only supports 32-bit hash values. >> The thread seems to show agreement that the hash values should be >> Py_ssize_t but the chance to fix it will be lost unless core devs get >> more time to work on the problem or unless the ABI freeze is deferred. > >I think the panic is a bit of an overreaction. PEP 384 has still not >been accepted, and I haven't seen a final decision about freezing the >ABI in 3.2. Yes, but there's less than a month left before 3.2 beta 1, and then it *will* be too late, at least for this release. -Barry -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20101015/0616bb3d/attachment.pgp>
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