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After I implemented this and compared with just encoding the key with JSON, it turned out that JSON.stringify is so fast, that it's not really worth the effort.

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Unfortunately JSON.stringify makes no guarantees about the order of keys in an Object, so that can break in subtle ways.

Aha, that's true. I wasn't using hash maps when I did this, but what you write makes sense.

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