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Re:Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (part II) by JoachimSchipper on Thursday August 30, 2012 @02:25PM (#4456017)
From yesterday's bug hunting session: sets (okay, not exactly hash tables) are not ordered data types, so do not use a set for intermediate values when order matters. (My fault - I'm just pointing out that it's not that hard to get Python wrong either.)
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Re:Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (part II) by dkersten on Thursday August 30, 2012 @05:00PM (#4456784)
Well, sets are the canonical unordered collection, after all.
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