Does associative array change the location of values?

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On Saturday, 30 October 2021 at 00:49:04 UTC, Stanislav Blinov 
wrote:
> On Friday, 29 October 2021 at 21:00:48 UTC, Steven 
> Schveighoffer wrote:
>
>> This is incorrect, the buckets are each heap allocated. Just 
>> the array of bucket pointers would change.
>>
>> In addition, AAs do not deallocate the key/value pairs ever. 
>> You are safe to obtain a pointer to a value and it will stay 
>> there, even if you remove the key.
>>
>
> Who's going to document these implementation details? ;) I 
> mean, if no one, then the above shouldn't be stated. Wouldn't 
> you agree?
>
> Given the premise of the question at hand, it does seem useful 
> to know these. But at least one should stress what is and isn't 
> subject to change (even if unlikely).

This should be documented for sure