Funnily enough this exact topic came up on Hackernews just recently when a Googler started benchmarking AssemblyScript (a language for WebAssembly) and realized

Funnily enough this exact topic came up on Hackernews just recently when a Googler started benchmarking AssemblyScript (a language for WebAssembly) and realized that AssemblyScript was increasing the size by +1 instead of doubling when reallocating... Here is the HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26804454 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26804454