Hi Hans, hi Roland,

thanks for your answer.

> it actually defeats one of the security properties of lua (which was
> explicitly introduced at some point: make sure that hashes have random order
> each run so that it's harder to retrieve sensitive data from mem)

Well, that is a good point to *not* implement the change.

Roland, do you have any comments? I guess the reproducability strive is
not as important as security.

So if something in this way should be done, it would need to
changes sort order if and only if FORCE_SOURCE_DATE=1 in the env
(this is what has required for tex engines to obey SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
settings).