BloomFilter and serialization - update

[Dimitris Andreou]

Hi all,

Just a heads up: the serial form of the newly released BloomFilter may soon change incompatibly. This was not intended, the aim with BloomFilter was/is to provide a version which can be persisted indefinitely and will always work, even if in the meantime we implement various tweaks/optimizations. Due to an oversight, the most important optimization -not bumping the table to a power of two- can't practically be implemented compatibly. Sorry about any problem this might cause. 

So, if you plan to persist BloomFilter instances right now, keep in mind that these will have to be recreated at the next BF version.

Thanks,

Dimitris

[Kevin Bourrillion]

Clarification: this decision hasn't actually been made yet. 

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