This is an interesting exchange.  Your final remark makes one wonder how
much improvement there has been in software development/techniques as
far as speed is concerned.

Job van Zuijlen

Ed Hall wrote:
> 
> Anyhow, it's interesting to note that Csound uses the very techniques
> that sped it up this little benchmark program over an order of magnitude.
> Whether by chance or design, 20-year-old implementation choices still seem
> to be the right ones from a performance perspective.
>