shootout - nsieve-bits benchmark

[Kostis Sagonas]

 > > I've kept quiet till now, because I did not want to
 > > reveal the HiPE magic to the world, but since I see
 > > that all Erlang solutions are> ets-based, I find
 > > little reason not to send this post...
 > 
 > Has the time finally come for destructively updated
 > terms, then? :-)

No, nothing as drastic as that.  It is just that HiPE has an
interface for arrays of bytes (implemented using binaries)
and arrays of immediates -- e.g. fixnums.

Kostis