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On 12/15/2011 07:43 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>
> We'll pretty much definitely want to be able to read values>  1024 once
> people start shoving keys in there. The PAGE_SIZE limit is one that I'd
> forgotten about, though.
>

The jump from 1024 to 4096 seems to not be very long... hence I think we 
may need a different approach.