Unfortunately, the relatively simple tests I benchmarked weren't "a little slower". They were 7x slower!

Ouch! I can see how that it would be disastrous to expend all the effort of converting only to find those monsters running like they were on 1990's hardware :)

Thanks again for an incredibly educational and fun (and frustrating... but not due to you) conversation!

As always with the interesting problems. I probably got as much out of the exercise as you did. That's what keeps me coming back to this place. Moi petites cellules grises need stimulation otherwise they atrophy. Fast!