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Re:Rust: 128 bit integers preparing to be released by kbd on Saturday December 03, 2016 @11:49PM (#13098828)
Thanks for the link to the explanation of the hash table bug!

> One proposal is that hash tables ought to retain their insertion order...

This seems to be something that a lot of hash table implementations are converging on:

https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2015/01/faster-more-memory-eff...

Do you happen to have a link to the discussion for the Rust proposal?

Re:Rust: 128 bit integers preparing to be released by tatterdemalion on Sunday December 04, 2016 @12:26AM (#13098905)
Here's the discussion about this problem on Rust's internals forum:

https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/help-harden-hashmap-in-lib...

Re:Rust: 128 bit integers preparing to be released by steveklabnik on Sunday December 04, 2016 @12:00AM (#13098855)
I don't happen to have a link handy, no. I'm not even sure if it's a formal proposal or something someone happened to suggest one time, off the top of my head.