On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Juan Lang <juan.l...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm not arguing with the behavior of broken(). I'm saying that since >> this feature is undocumented it's entirely possible that it could get >> removed in some future version of Windows*, so if we're not testing >> the version we wouldn't know that it got removed. We were lucky to >> stumble upon this thing in the first place, it's starting to look like >> it's not actually the issue responsible for the slowdown bug for which >> we are researching. > > Except that an app already depends on the newer behavior, so Microsoft > would have to maintain a quirk for the app if they wanted to change > the behavior. Since the hypothetical future version of Windows with > changed behavior doesn't yet exist, addressing that case seems rather > premature. > --Juan >
Point taken. Erich Hoover ehoo...@mines.edu
