Shouldn't 1.8.0 be faster than Julia 1.7?

julia> @bprofile f()
BenchmarkTools.Trial: 5650 samples with 1 evaluation.
Range (min … max): 341.958 μs … 7.635 ms ┊ GC (min … max): 0.00% … 88.89%
Time (median): 764.125 μs ┊ GC (median): 0.00%
Time (mean ± σ): 882.770 μs ± 373.281 μs ┊ GC (mean ± σ): 14.80% ± 18.36%

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342 μs Histogram: frequency by time 2.39 ms <

Memory estimate: 7.63 MiB, allocs estimate: 2.