How are you suggesting the table would be sorted?

So that if you sorted this table:

$hget(table,1).item = c
$hget(table,2).item = a
$hget(table,3).item = b

It'd become:

$hget(table,1).item = a
$hget(table,2).item = b
$hget(table,3).item = c

Or something else?