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about an impending ABI freeze before the core devs find time to fix the 

32-bit hash limitation.

ISTM, the use of 64-bit builds is growing in popularity.  It was be a bummer

to have a locked-in an effective size limit for dictionaries and sets because

the API only supports 32-bit hash values.

The thread seems to show agreement that the hash values should be

Py\_ssize\_t but the chance to fix it will be lost unless core devs get 

more time to work on the problem or unless the ABI freeze is deferred.

Raymond