I don't like the approach of pointlessly reallocating the array this way, but 5 million elements is not a problem on any machine built in the last 20 years. That's just 20 megs for 4-byte integers. With modern GC, this is cheap. It's not something you'd want to do in a tight loop (the copy time will start to matter), but for something like the example, the cost (in machine terms) is negligible.