Nim can be consistently faster than C++ with raw pointers. See:
* [{.noInit.}
PR](https://github.com/frol/completely-unscientific-benchmarks/pull/17)
requires devel unfortunately
* [Static compilation
discussion](https://github.com/frol/completely-unscientific-benchmarks/issues/43#issuecomment-389497614),
does not require devel
