malloc/realloc only powers of two?
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Description
It might be worth considering only allocating strings of a capacity that is a power of two (including header) to reduce memory fragmentations:
A simple code snippet to round up to the next power of two:
```
unsigned int v; // compute the next highest power of 2 of 32-bit v
--v;
v |= v >> 1;
v |= v >> 2;
v |= v >> 4;
v |= v >> 8;
v |= v >> 16;
++v;
```
I can make the code contribution if you'd like.
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