> Right...the specific need I have is for implementing a cache
> mechanism...even if that cache needed to hold 1 million objects, it
> would only rarely need to be allocated (when adjusting the size of the
> cache for instance)...
Consider a bucket cache. A collection of collections, each one
representing a range of the cache. I think the symbol table might be
implemented that way at the moment?

tim
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