Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de> added the comment:

Glenn, you have reached a point where you stop bike-shedding and start to troll 
by attacking people. Please calm down. I'm sure that you are just worried about 
the future of Python and all the bad things, that might be introduced by a fix 
for the issue.

Please trust us! Paul, Victor, Antoine and several more involved developers are 
professional Python devs and have been for years. Most of them do Python 
development for a living. We won't kill the snake that pays our bills. ;) 
Ultimately it's Guido's choice, too. 

Martin:
Ouch, the startup impact is large! Have we reached a point where "one size fits 
all" doesn't work any longer? It's getting harder to have just one executable 
for 500ms scripts and server processes that last for weeks.

Marc-Andre:
Have you profiled your suggestion? I'm interested in the speed implications. My 
gut feeling is that your idea could be slower, since you have added more 
instructions to a tight loop, that is execute on every lookup, insert, update 
and deletion of a dict key. The hash modification could have a smaller impact, 
since the hash is cached. I'm merely speculating here until we have some 
numbers to compare.

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