On 01/31/2013 06:28 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

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Well, it is too nasty for public confession, but it's called
"paravirtualization".

The fact that you are aware of it means we're not going to break them.  

But my point is that we must not be held back just in case someone out 
there might have painted himself in a corner without telling anyone.

Yes.  However, it makes it more questionable to simply rip out
compression methods without warning.  Not that warnings help, as we have
learned.

	-hpa