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		im3w1l on Sept 24, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Relativistic hash tables I think if you insert an element during iteration, it is unpredictable whether said element will be visited during the iteration or not, so it is probably a bad idea even if you wont have a resize.

seabee on Sept 24, 2014 [–]

It's a bad idea if you don't have a well-defined mode of operation; for example, you're fine if the hash table uses copy-on-write semantics.

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