Benchmark game challenge and some optimization questions

See also Julia’s own: Julia Micro-Benchmarks

It really needs be be rerun and updated (not done since 1.0), e.g. before 1.8 released. And if anything in Julia can be fixed for those or Debian’s benchmarks to make batter that would be great! Note, both have a pi benchmark, while very different.

Note, also this discussion (and adding memory pools as a package, I’m not sure Debian will allow that, maybe if ithe the standard library?):