To change this value you'd need to recompile the VM, it is defined in a C
macro and part of the ERTS.

On Fri, Oct 28, 2022, 05:20 Zach Daniel <zachary.s.dan...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Myself and many other developers have been bitten by the fact that maps
> are sorted if they have less than 33 elements. Not because we believed that
> we should rely on the sort ordering of a map, but because we *accidentally*
> wrote an implementation that did, and didn't test it with more than 32
> elements. Then at some point later in actual use things get strange, and
> debugging the above scenario can be very difficult (but is of course
> obvious in retrospect). This could be opt-in or opt-out, all the same to
> me, although unless the performance impacts are huge I think that it would
> save new developers even more time than experienced developers and so
> should potentially be opt-out. After a while when you start to see things
> "showing up in weird orders" you have an intuition to go look for a map
> being enumerated, but that isn't something a beginner would likely think
> of.
>
> As far as I know this is an erlang thing, but I'm not too familiar with
> erlang and thought I'd float it by the elixir group first. I'm also not
> sure if its possible to change those constants based on Mix environments
> (or to change them at all), but I imagine that is where it will intersect
> with Elixir.
>
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