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It's not that targeted. Factorial is a reasonable thing to do, optimising for the values that fit in a 64-bit integer is a reasonable thing to do.

If I read this in some code, I wouldn't think "Huh, that's a specialised feature, I bet it's attacking a specific benchmark" I would think, "Oh, that makes sense".




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