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Date:	Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:33:39 +0000
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Corinna Vinschen writes:

>> Incidentally, if you're reading this, Corinna: the iterations are
>> about 2.5x faster with this DLL.  What'd you do? :)
>
> Nothing fancy.  We chanted the code and sacrificed a few kittens to the
> big C++, that's all.

I just tried the 20101215 snapshot on a Windows 7 64-bit box, and it
is 25% _slower_ on the date fork loop (approx. 8/sec as opposed to
12.5/sec) than the vanilla 1.7.7 version from August. . .

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