Execution of the test program below goes from 14s to 0.09 s (unoptimized build, Athlon 800).
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_main: set S0, "" set I0, 100000 time N0 lp: concat S0, "1234567890" dec I0 if I0, lp time N1 sub N1, N0 print "Len " length I1, S0 print I1 print " time " print N1 print "\n" end