Slow is slow and fast is fast. For some reason you consider it cheating to not ref-count everything in C++ to get speed, but writing idiomatic Julia code which

Slow is slow and fast is fast. For some reason you consider it cheating to not ref-count everything in C++ to get speed, but writing idiomatic Julia code which does minimal allocation is somehow out of bounds. You'd decided what you want to believe and are working backward from there.