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On Thursday, May 17, 2018 at 9:57:53 PM UTC-5, Lucretia wrote:
> You don't get the point I made. That "benchmark" is to see how fast diffe=
rent languages go using the same algorithm, without using any safety featur=
es. If you hobble Ada by including them, you will make people think it's re=
ally slow. It's not about the safety features. Do you get it now?

I'm curious: did my implementation circumvent safety features? The only thi=
ng I can think of is the Unchecked_Deallocation, but that doesn't really af=
fect execution time. I put it in there mainly because I thought there might=
 be a memory issue (there had already been comments about some versions hav=
ing a much larger memory footprint than others).

At this point you can probably tell I haven't quite grokked Ada yet.