Any code that relies on AA's storing keys in the same order is broken.  A 
rehash can reorder keys at any time, I think even with the old implementation.

-Steve



----- Original Message ----
> From: Andrei Alexandrescu <[email protected]>
> To: Discuss the phobos library for D <[email protected]>
> Sent: Mon, March 22, 2010 10:45:11 AM
> Subject: Re: [phobos] Unit tests broken again. Bad AAs?
> 
> Yes, I saw that too. Walter has changed the implementation of AAs, and the 
> relative ordering of keys has changed. The contents of the arrays involved in 
> the failure seems to be equal, so the bug is in the AA comparison 
> operator.

(I think what happens is that now the exact ordering of 
> elements depends on history, i.e. the order in which they were inserted. In 
> the 
> previous implementation the ordering was 
> history-independent.)

Andrei

On 03/22/2010 08:58 AM, Don Clugston 
> wrote:
> It seems that one of the druntime commits after 270
> 
> (probably 271, "reduce memory consumption of small AA's") has broken
> the 
> Phobos unittests. json.d is now failing.
> 
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