in reply to Perl hashes and non-determinism

Hashes are non-deterministic for security reasons. Deterministic hashtables allow attackers to do denial-of-service attacks:

If you need determistic ordering in hash tables, you should adapt the hash keys in a way that allows sort keys %hash to work.

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