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