`static` also allows it to optimize, and it's more of a code hygiene thing. Your original code as written unintentionally defines `find` as a function that mus

`static` also allows it to optimize, and it's more of a code hygiene thing. Your original code as written unintentionally defines `find` as a function that must be preserved (as a separate function) into the compiled output, and `static` undoes that.