I don't know about the risks (but in principle there shouldn't be many, I'm running clients with this fine now for a few days), but the start-up is actually very painful for me without a SSD. On your SSD system, you probably don't see much difference - but for me, start-up took more than 10 minutes after a reboot, while with the patch (and compacting the DB manually, TBH) it was only a minute or so.phelix wrote:tbh I am not sure whether the gains justify the risk of this change at the moment. For me the sluggish GUI is much more bothersome than waiting a couple of seconds longer on startup or wasting a couple of MBs.
I forgot to mention this above: After compacting the DB manually (I can try to write a corresponding update to the patch that does this), the reported time of 460 seconds on my system gets reduced to only 10-15 (!). I think this should be worth it.