[Python-Dev] String hash function multiplier

[Skip Montanaro]

    Tim> What makes the current stepping of some flavor of P4 overwhelmingly
    Tim> important <0.3 wink>?

Unrelated to this thread, what does "stepping" mean?  A quick Google search
for "Pentium stepping glossary" yielded this page

  http://processorfinder.intel.com/scripts/help3.asp

but doesn't explain why Intel uses "stepping" instead of "version" or
"revision". 

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