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by dredmorbius 4531 days ago
over 25% longer

You're assuming a constant factor here. That might be the case. Or it could be one-time start-up overhead as the linker finds and opens library files.

Unless you profile the process over a range of input sizes, you don't know which you're observing. And you know what they say about premature optimization.