Skiplists to the Nth degree

[David Carter]

On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Bron Gondwana wrote:

> Replying to myself yet again - I guess all you other lucky sods are on 
> holiday or something :)

Some of us have been busy reverse engineering other obscure binary file 
formats. You do seem to have unearthed a lot of separate problems here.

I'm slightly amazed that things work at all. I was getting the impression 
that skiplist in 2.3 was less reliable than 2.1.X, but that was probably 
just the wind was blowing in the right direction. I don't think that a 
huge amount changed before you started to dig through the code.

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