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Re:Python dicts are now ordered by mark-r on Friday February 07, 2020 @11:31AM (#22267623)
> Code that ordered the dictionary keys before iterating are now slightly innefficient due to extra work of sorting a sorted list.

I think TimSort is extremely efficient for presorted lists, so even that isn't a major impediment.

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