Shane Hathaway on May 1st, 2008

This release has greatly optimized packing. This time for real, I hope!
At this point, I am confident in the correctness of the pack algorithm. Version 1.0 had it right as well. However, version 1.0 was naive about just how many object states might be packed all at once. It [...]

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Shane Hathaway on May 1st, 2008

The Zope community likes to innovate on programming. One such innovation is to use extensive “doctests” in place of conventional code tests. This practice, like other innovations, stirs up a little controversy now and then, since it’s often not clear how widely the idea should be applied.
In that context, may I just say [...]

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Shane Hathaway on May 1st, 2008

On May 1st. Wow.

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