Thanks. I tried that just now:
ms:nim jim$ nim c -d:danger --gc:arc str1
Hint: 11937 LOC; 0.390 sec; 12.988MiB peakmem; Dangerous Release build;
proj: /Users/jim/nim/str1; out: /Users\
/jim/nim/str1 [SuccessX]
ms:nim jim$ /usr/bin/time -l ./str1
100000001
0.90 real 0.73 user 0.15 sys
440176640 maximum resident set size
107478 page reclaims
5 page faults
1 voluntary context switches
4 involuntary context switches
RunDoes this need 1.3x?
