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From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
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>> _If_ it harms performance on small boxes.
> 
> You mean like the general slowdown from 2.4 - >2.5?
> 
> It seems to me for small boxes, 2.5.x is margianlly slower at most
> things than 2.4.x.

Can you name a benchmark, or at least do something reproducible between
versions, and produce a 2.4 vs 2.5 profile? Let's at least try to fix it ...

M.

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