From: Anurag Priyam Date: 2011-06-22T16:26:14+09:00 Subject: Re: How to order a hash based on its keys? > the same class. In my tests rbtree is better for deleting elements but > worse than a Hash for inserting them. Since we are talking about performance benchmarks too, Ruby 1.9's ordered hashes also exhibit faster reads than writes. [1]: http://www.igvita.com/2009/02/04/ruby-19-internals-ordered-hash/ -- Anurag Priyam http://about.me/yeban/