[MERGE] faster extraction of plain texts from knits

[James Westby]

On (09/08/07 09:48), Ian Clatworthy wrote:
> John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> 
> > Is this 0.19 worthy?
> 
> I haven't read the code so Aaron and Martin are better placed to
> comment. My leaning would be to vote for inclusion, as long as James is
> comfortable with that, given we still have enough(?) time for catching
> weird side effects, if any, prior to 0.19 shipping.
> 
> I wouldn't leave it any more than 24 hrs though. Low level changes late
> in the cycle is inherently risky, even with our awesome test suite.
> 

This does seem pretty risky for a freeze exception. My inclination is to
defer it until the next release, but I'm not going to stand in the way
of it.

Therefore, if you think it should be in this release say so now.

Thanks,

James

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