I generate images with command line apps in Swift on MacOS. Under the prior Xcode/MacOS my code had been running at the same performance for years. Converting to Swift 6 (no code changes) and running on Sequoia, I noticed a massive slowdown. Running Profile, I tracked it down to allow single line: var values = ContiguousArray<Double>(repeating: 0.0, count: localData.options.count) count for my current test case is 4, so its allocating 4 doubles at a time, around 40,000 times in this test. This one line takes 42 seconds out of a run time of 52 seconds. With the profile shown as: 26 41.62 s  4.8% 26.00 ms specialized ContiguousArray.init(_uninitializedCount:) 42 41.57 s  4.8% 42.00 ms _ContiguousArrayBuffer.init(_uninitializedCount:minimumCapacity:) 40730 40.93 s  4.7% 40.73 s _swift_allocObject_ 68 68.00 ms  0.0% 68.00 ms std::__1::pair<MallocTypeCacheEntry*, unsigned int> swift::ConcurrentReadableHashMap<MallocTypeCacheEntry, swift::LazyMutex>::find<unsigned int>(unsigned int const&, swift::ConcurrentReadableHashMap<MallocTypeCacheEntry, swift::LazyMutex>::IndexStorage, unsigned long, MallocTypeCacheEntry*) 7 130.00 ms  0.0% 7.00 ms swift::swift_slowAllocTyped(unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long long) which is clearly inside the OS allocator somewhere. What happened? Previously this would have taken closer to 8 seconds or so for the entire run.