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"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com> wrote:
>
>  > It would take a quite a lot of work to measure this properly.  A simple A/B
>  > comparison doesn't cut it.
> 
>  So why are we changing it then? ;-)

It is very easy to demonstrate that it saves 300 kilobytes of memory.