Understandable. Why do you need the keys function to return the keys in the same order? What is it that you're trying to do?
-----Original Message----- From: Gavin Bowlby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 5:57 PM To: Timothy Johnson; beginners@perl.org Subject: RE: question on Perl determinism with hash keys I don't want to do this sorting because I have many hashes within my Perl program that are changing at a high rate, and I'm trying to optimize performance within my Perl program. -----Original Message----- From: Timothy Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 5:47 PM To: Gavin Bowlby; beginners@perl.org Subject: RE: question on Perl determinism with hash keys I personally have never felt the need. One thing I'll often do is a foreach(sort keys %hash){ #do something... } If you know what the keys are going to be ahead of time that might work for you. -----Original Message----- From: Gavin Bowlby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 5:37 PM To: Timothy Johnson; beginners@perl.org Subject: RE: question on Perl determinism with hash keys Timothy et al: Thanks, I did mean in the same order. Any idea on the relative performance of a hash tied to IxHash vs. a vanilla hash? I have a Perl program with many hashes whose entries are created and destroyed at a high rate, and I'm wondering if I can expect a performance hit if I make this change... Gavin -----Original Message----- From: Timothy Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 5:28 PM To: Gavin Bowlby; beginners@perl.org Subject: RE: question on Perl determinism with hash keys If you mean in the same order, then no. perldoc -q order -----Original Message----- From: Gavin Bowlby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 5:25 PM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: question on Perl determinism with hash keys All: If I populate a %hash within a Perl program, is there any guarantee that from run to run of the same Perl program the keys(%hash) function will return identical sets of keys? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
