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On 12/15/2010 8:55 PM, Matthias Andree wrote:
> same story with 1.7.8s. Builds successfully 4 times, then fails.

I upgraded my DLL to yesterday's snapshot and ran the build through a 
further 80 iterations.  No failures.

I still believe you have a local issue.

Incidentally, if you're reading this, Corinna: the iterations are about 
2.5x faster with this DLL.  What'd you do? :)

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