Remove an unused early-out test from the critical path for
dict and set lookups.
When the strings already have matching lengths and hashes,
there is no additional information gained by checking the first
characters (the probability of a mismatch is already known to
be less than 1 in 2**64).
This fixes two places where 'int' was used to represent
the size of strings, instead of 'Py_ssize_t'.
(The issue is not present in the corresponding code in the 3.x branches)
Fixes#18427
environment variable, to provide an opt-in way to protect against denial of
service attacks due to hash collisions within the dict and set types. Patch
by David Malcolm, based on work by Victor Stinner.
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/release27-maint
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r83354 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-31 21:07:37 +0200 (Sa, 31 Jul 2010) | 1 line
#9328: string format methods return strings.
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r83365 | georg.brandl | 2010-07-31 23:22:36 +0200 (Sa, 31 Jul 2010) | 1 line
#1019882: if start() and stop() were not in the same stack frame, stats.load() would crash with IndexError.
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