On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 10:29:41 -0700, zof...@zoffix.com wrote: > Looking at this now, with an extra year of knowledge, it makes perfect > sense for this to be unusually slower: each line switches back and > forth from Main language braid, to Quote language braid, and then back > to Main.
I was wrong. The braid switch makes virtually no difference and slowness is present even with 10000 repeated `1;`