Hi, At Thu, 2 Dec 2004 15:51:46 +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote in [ruby-talk:122141]: > Nobu himself made a patch to preserve hash order. I have not decided > yet to merge it. The only concern is performance. The performance wouldn't increase for insertion, iteration and lookup, but do for direct deleting (except for st_delete_safe). And the memory usage increases 2 pointers for each hash entries. -- Nobu Nakada