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Re:How Many Lines of C It Takes to Execute a and B in Python? by matheusmoreira on Monday December 11, 2023 @02:33PM (#38604363)
Hash function security is certainly a concern due to hash flooding attacks which force worst case performance hash table lookup and leads to denial of service.

https://peps.python.org/pep-0456/

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Re:How Many Lines of C It Takes to Execute a and B in Python? by tesdinger on Monday December 11, 2023 @06:04PM (#38606729)
A lot of code never sees data input by untrusted sources. Just let me ignore the possible attacks and run python faster on my own data.
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