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Performance

Very early, rough and variable timings
Results sometimes vary across operating system, machine, etc.
Very Encouraging however
1. Cumsum
  1. 164 times faster than interpreted code
  2. 33 times faster than byte-code compiler
2. 2D Random Walk
  1. 263 & 475 times faster than interpreted code on Linux & OSX
  2. 173 & 317 times faster than byte-compiler on Linux & OSX
Byte compiler gives a factor of between 1.5 and 4