[gambit-list] for each, hash table, order
Marc Feeley
feeley at iro.umontreal.ca
Sat May 23 14:20:33 EDT 2009
On 23-May-09, at 9:58 AM, lowly coder wrote:
> i realize that order is fairly meaningless in the context of a
> hashtable
>
> however, if i for-each twice through a hashtable, and there are no
> writes (add or remove) to the hashtable in between them, am I, by
> the way that gambit is implemented, guaranteed to hit the elemements
> in the same order for the two times?
>
No. If there is a garbage collection, things can be moved around in
the table.
Marc
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