Am 31.12.20 um 17:46 schrieb Derrick Stolee: > To wrap up, I'm going to eject this patch from my v2 since more investigation > must be done to see if this second loop _can_ be dropped. At minimum, it isn't > properly silent when requested and there _is_ a performance boost possible, > even if we keep the check. OK. It *is* suspicious that the test suite doesn't exercise the check done by that second loop. Removing it completely would rob us of so many ways to optimize it, though. ;-) René