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Benchmark: timing 15000 iterations of mine-elegant, mine-less-elegant,
+ original, yours-arg2...
mine-elegant: 7 wallclock secs ( 5.19 usr + 0.00 sys = 5.19 CPU) @
+2890.17/s (n=15000)
mine-less-elegant: 4 wallclock secs ( 3.19 usr + 0.01 sys = 3.20 CP
+U) @ 4687.50/s (n=15000)
original: 6 wallclock secs ( 5.06 usr + 0.02 sys = 5.08 CPU) @ 29
+52.76/s (n=15000)
yours-arg2: 32 wallclock secs (25.06 usr + 0.08 sys = 25.14 CPU) @ 59
+6.66/s (n=15000)