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From: Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: Re: Bulk Array Element Allocation, is it faster?
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Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Main question I have here is not about relative
> correctness of bulk versus lazy. But why bulk is
> counterintuitively much faster?
>
> Since the bulk is much faster I am assuming ...

I understand perfectly well, that you *were* resorting
to those assumptions when you first noticed the effect,
but after Patricia's and others' answers I wouldn't 
expect those assumptions to be still necessary to
explain your observations.