<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">After rereading <a href="http://bugs.python.org/issue9778">http://bugs.python.org/issue9778</a> , I'm growing concerned<div>about an impending ABI freeze before the core devs find time to fix the </div><div>32-bit hash limitation.</div><div><br></div><div>ISTM, the use of 64-bit builds is growing in popularity. It was be a bummer</div><div>to have a locked-in an effective size limit for dictionaries and sets because</div><div>the API only supports 32-bit hash values.</div><div><br></div><div>The thread seems to show agreement that the hash values should be</div><div>Py_ssize_t but the chance to fix it will be lost unless core devs get </div><div>more time to work on the problem or unless the ABI freeze is deferred.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Raymond</div></body></html>