The original code was badly written so that is was hard to understand the algorithm. I tried to rewrite it but it took longer than I had patience for. The snar

The original code was badly written so that is was hard to understand the algorithm. I tried to rewrite it but it took longer than I had patience for. The snarky tone comes from the fact that people often post "benchmarks" including languages they can't program in resulting in a misrepresentation. E.g. Lisp jumped from the bottom to the center (as expected) of the benchmarks after somebody donated a sane implementation.