in reply to c-style for loop versus list for loop, and bigint
My off the cuff guess would be that the bigint pragma isn't affecting the iterator underlying your 1..999 (which I want to say is optimized under the covers so an actual list isn't built) whereas it does affect the explicit incrementing.
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