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On 08/04/2012 02:05 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The problem with that code was that it doesn't work with dynamically allocated hashtables, or hashtables that grow/shrink.
> 
> Sure. But once you have that kind of complexity, why would you care
> about the trivial cases?

Because there are far more trivial cases than complex ones - I've counted 50+ of these "trivial" cases.

None of them need the complexity we're trying to deal with at the moment.