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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: large hash tables
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David Allsopp wrote:
> resizing, even it means that the resizing is potentially slower (a slower
> version could always be used if the buckets are detected to be huge or in
> response to a caught Stack_overflow - though that could prove tricky).

The detection of Stack_overflow does not work well for all the supported 
systems. A library should not assume that the exception will be raised 
properly.

-- Alain