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by morelisp 1325 days ago
> Most sane collection libraries shrink their backing store after some sufficiently large portion becomes dead.

If you exclude Java, and C++ and C# I think, stdlibs from being sane, sure.

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womp womp, you are indeed correct. I'd swear that Java and .NET's did, but I assume that's bad memory at fault :(

I will say though that I don't consider C++'s various maps to be sane :D