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diff --git a/contrib/perl5/ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/CHANGES b/contrib/perl5/ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/CHANGES deleted file mode 100644 index f7296d1..0000000 --- a/contrib/perl5/ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/CHANGES +++ /dev/null @@ -1,18 +0,0 @@ -Changes from the earlier BETA releases. - -o dbm_prep does everything now, so dbm_open is just a simple - wrapper that builds the default filenames. dbm_prep no longer - requires a (DBM *) db parameter: it allocates one itself. It - returns (DBM *) db or (DBM *) NULL. - -o makroom is now reliable. In the common-case optimization of the page - split, the page into which the incoming key/value pair is to be inserted - is write-deferred (if the split is successful), thereby saving a cosly - write. BUT, if the split does not make enough room (unsuccessful), the - deferred page is written out, as the failure-window is now dependent on - the number of split attempts. - -o if -DDUFF is defined, hash function will also use the DUFF construct. - This may look like a micro-performance tweak (maybe it is), but in fact, - the hash function is the third most-heavily used function, after read - and write. |
