Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Jan 20 17:01:03 EST 2016

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Yury Selivanov wrote:
> What I propose is to add a pointer "ma_extra" (same 64bits),
> which will be set to NULL for most dict instances (instead of
> ma_version).  "ma_extra" can then point to a struct that has a
> globally unique dict ID (uint64), and a version tag (unit64).

Why not just use a single global counter for allocating
dict version tags, instead of one per dict?

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Greg

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