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charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 4/21/26 11:42, Edgecombe, Rick P wrote: > Makes sense. And I see the merit in just trying to revert the change. But I > think a change to fix the optimization is also temptingly small: Yeah, it is tempting. It's probably what I would have done if this wasn't easy to revert, or if it wasn't _just_ an optimization. But once -rc1 hits, we should definitely revisit the optimization.