Profiling rhg files > /dev/null on an old snapshot of mozilla-central
(with perf and the Firefox Profiler:
https://github.com/firefox-devtools/profiler/blob/main/docs-user/guide-perf-profiling.md)
showed non-trivial time spend in this function and in realloc.
This change makes the wall-clock time for that process on my machine
go from ~190 ms to ~150 ms.