order independent hash?

[Chris Angelico]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Lie Ryan <lie.1296 at 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