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0 pointsilyt3y ago0 comments

Perl did that too IIRC, although motivation was to avoid predictable hash collisions that might put program into slow path

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usr11063y ago· 1 in thread

Didn't Python introduce that, too, after a high profile DoS CVE around 10 years ago?

jwilk3y ago

Yes.

> Changed in version 3.3: Hash randomization is enabled by default.

But since Python 3.6 dicts keep the insertion order, so the order of iteration is deterministic again.

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