Random factoid: On my Mac M1 Max, in Mma, vectorized addition and multiplication of 10^6 - 10^7 complex numbers is consistently 15% faster than the addition and multiplication of twice as many real numbers. Integers are about the same speed as reals. I used RepeatedTiming
; 10^7 numbers gives very consistent results; 10^6 sometimes varies far from the average. (Addition & multiplication of the same type of number take the same time.)