[erlang-questions] map elements in defined order

[Sverker Eriksson]

On 10/27/2017 04:04 AM, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
> The current thread has left me somewhat confused.
>
> Suppose E1 and E2 are different computations,
> delivering maps M1 and M2 respectively, such
> that M1 =:= M2 is true.
>
> Are we guaranteed that term_to_binary(M1) and
> term_to_binary(M2) are equal binaries?
>
>

No. term_to_binary does not give any such guarantees.

And in the case where M1 and M2 were created by different VM instances, 
you can with current implementation get different binaries.


/Sverker