MenTaLguY pisze: > On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 23:23 +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote: > >> |It really seems that 1.9 got ordered hashes by default. Can anyone >> |confirm my observations? >> >> Yes, it preserves order of keys inserted. >> > > What data structure is used to track the insertion order? It seems like > there's a risk of making deletes from large hashes expensive. > > -mental > It's linked hash, every hash entry has *fore and *back fields. lopex