Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > pybench and perf.py can be used to measure performances of the patch. > The speedup may not be detected, but a slowdown would be detected at > least.
The slowdown would only occur for specific, well-chosen patterns. Also it may make DoS attacks easier. (remember the reason we randomized hashes is so that it's hard for attackers to find collisions) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16427> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
