I may have misspoken and should have left out "amortized," perhaps. It doesn't sound like you're familiar with incremental resizing or other real-time techniques?[1]
> Some hash table implementations, notably in real-time systems, cannot pay the price of enlarging the hash table all at once, because it may interrupt time-critical operations. If one cannot avoid dynamic resizing, a solution is to perform the resizing gradually.
> Some hash table implementations, notably in real-time systems, cannot pay the price of enlarging the hash table all at once, because it may interrupt time-critical operations. If one cannot avoid dynamic resizing, a solution is to perform the resizing gradually.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_table#Alternatives_to_all...