iteration order for Object

[Boris Zbarsky]

On 3/10/11 9:18 PM, Charles Kendrick wrote:
> Boris, this is why I also took care to mention that for..in iteration on
> Arrays should remain unordered

What does this have to do with the post you're replying to?

> so that developers doing relatively obscure things like crypto evoting in JavaScript (the use case in the
> first bug) still have access to a dense-array implementation.

The point is that the bignum library there is using vanilla objects, not 
arrays.  And they're using numeric property names.

> If Array for..in iteration continues to be unordered, any developer that
> cares about the tiny
> performance difference can use an Array to store non-numeric
> property/value pairs.

1) They're not doing that now, necessarily, and there's no indication 
that they'll start.

2) A factor of 6 is not a "tiny performance difference".

-Boris