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Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 11:17:48 +1100
Subject: Re: order independent hash?
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On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Lie Ryan <lie.1296@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/09/2011 10:27 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> Except for people who needed dicts with tens of millions of items.
>
> who should be using a proper DBMS in any case.

Not necessarily. "Database" usually implies disk-based and relational,
features that may well be quite superfluous; and a pure-memory
database with no relational facilities... is basically a dict. So why
not use one?

ChrisA