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<pre class="programlisting">#include <db.h>
int
DB->set_h_nelem(DB *db, u_int32_t h_nelem); </pre>
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Set an estimate of the final size of the hash table.
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The <span class="bold"><strong>h_nelem</strong></span> parameter is an estimate
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