[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 186747] Reduce HashTable capacity wastage

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=186747

--- Comment #3 from Darin Adler <darin at apple.com> ---
(In reply to Simon Fraser (smfr) from comment #0)
> Maybe the policy should be that we don't store large objects in HashMaps,
> and store pointers instead?

The tradeoff is likely the extra overhead for the separate memory blocks for each object vs. the extra overhead for unused hash table buckets. It would be good to have a principled way to do the math on that to figure out which costs more.

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