diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index a9a00600a2..2905f2b86e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Fri Sep 12 06:55:40 2014  Eric Wong  <e@80x24.org>
+
+	* string.c (Init_frozen_strings): use st_init_table_with_size
+
 Fri Sep 12 06:15:37 2014  NARUSE, Yui  <naruse@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* string.c (sym_find): remove Symbol.find because we have Symbol GC now.
diff --git a/string.c b/string.c
index bb97243acc..05e4e802cd 100644
--- a/string.c
+++ b/string.c
@@ -8948,5 +8948,5 @@ void
 Init_frozen_strings(void)
 {
     assert(!frozen_strings);
-    frozen_strings = st_init_table(&fstring_hash_type);
+    frozen_strings = st_init_table_with_size(&fstring_hash_type, 1000);
 }