[issue38105] hash collision when hash(x) == -2 causes many calls to __eq__

[Raymond Hettinger]

Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> added the comment:

[Tim Peters]
> I don't believe it's worth a single cycle, overall, to avoid it.

That makes complete sense.  Marking this one as closed.

Guido, thank for the high quality, reproducible report.

hongweipeng, thank you for the casual analysis.

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nosy: +rhettinger
resolution:  -> wont fix
stage:  -> resolved
status: open -> closed

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