Better title: why are some C stdlib functions slower than some Bolin stdlib functions. Unlike with many other languages, it's totally fine to write C code and (

Better title: why are some C stdlib functions slower than some Bolin stdlib functions. Unlike with many other languages, it's totally fine to write C code and (almost) completely ignore the stdlib functions. The C stdlib is essentially just the least common denominator to get trivial cmdline tools working (badly) across platforms, but that's about it.