[Cdk-devel] ordering for SD tag properties

[Rajarshi G. <raj...@gm...>]

Hi, there is a bug request (that is actually a feature request since  
it's not a bug)

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3168867&group_id=20024&atid=120024 
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that suggests that we change the use of HashMap in the handling of  
properties for IChemObject to LinkedHashMap. The use case is to keep  
the order of the tags read in from an SD file.

While it is a simple change, there would be some performance hit (to  
maintain the linked list of the keys). While the tag ordering is  
important for the requestor, is this a general enough requirement that  
justifies such a move?


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