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Perhaps it's unrealistic in the sense that this is unrealistically-optimisable code.

Real-world code has closures, allocations, and pointer-dererencing. This code is just iterations, additions and modulus.



> This code is just iterations...

Which is what the average programmer out there writes. Therefore, I think this is actually a good realistic benchmark.


Precisely - its bad code, which is what most code is!


What's a Github repository with good code?


All code is bad, some is useful


Useful is good. Ergo transitive property.


Nobody's ever seen it!


What the average programmer out there writes is just a tip on the iceberg of what gets executed. And an incredibly small tip.




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