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by Dylan16807 254 days ago
Doesn't need to, it can acknowledge and ignore the hints.
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True, but there might be more problems — like if you drop support their run time will be slow because they rely on this flag and they are unhappy
The premise of removing the flag is that it's useless or a problem. If it's still causing a big speed boost somewhere then you need to figure something out, but the core scenario here is that it's obsolete.