Comment by bufo

Have people actually looked at the code? You can’t treat the benchmarks game code as a simple black box. Most implementations look like C regardless of the language, eg. https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... or https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

There is very little to infer from code which is so far from being idiomatic, aside from the fact that you might as well use C if you ever find yourself in the benchmark situation.