at least some of the speed bump in 7 came from reduced memory usage. IIRC, array pointer size was reduced significantly - something like 120+ bytes per array e

at least some of the speed bump in 7 came from reduced memory usage. IIRC, array pointer size was reduced significantly - something like 120+ bytes per array entry was reduced to ~40 bytes, so far less memory needed to be allocated and managed throughout an execution cycle. I'm sure there were other reasons for speed boosts, but that is one that's stuck in my head for some time.