On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 3:03 AM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com
> wrote
>
> I think that means that we should just completely replace the list with
> the hash table. The difference with a small N is lost in noise, so there's
> no point in keeping the list as a fast path for small N. That'll make the
> patch somewhat simpler.
> - Heikki
>
Attached is a much more simple patch which gets rid of the initial linked
list.