comptime sieve

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+# Sieve
+
+Welcome to Sieve on Exercism's Rust Track.
+If you need help running the tests or submitting your code, check out `HELP.md`.
+
+## Introduction
+
+You bought a big box of random computer parts at a garage sale.
+You've started putting the parts together to build custom computers.
+
+You want to test the performance of different combinations of parts, and decide to create your own benchmarking program to see how your computers compare.
+You choose the famous "Sieve of Eratosthenes" algorithm, an ancient algorithm, but one that should push your computers to the limits.
+
+## Instructions
+
+Your task is to create a program that implements the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm to find all prime numbers less than or equal to a given number.
+
+A prime number is a number larger than 1 that is only divisible by 1 and itself.
+For example, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, and 13 are prime numbers.
+By contrast, 6 is _not_ a prime number as it not only divisible by 1 and itself, but also by 2 and 3.
+
+To use the Sieve of Eratosthenes, first, write out all the numbers from 2 up to and including your given number.
+Then, follow these steps:
+
+1. Find the next unmarked number (skipping over marked numbers).
+   This is a prime number.
+2. Mark all the multiples of that prime number as **not** prime.
+
+Repeat the steps until you've gone through every number.
+At the end, all the unmarked numbers are prime.
+
+~~~~exercism/note
+The Sieve of Eratosthenes marks off multiples of each prime using addition (repeatedly adding the prime) or multiplication (directly computing its multiples), rather than checking each number for divisibility.
+
+The tests don't check that you've implemented the algorithm, only that you've come up with the correct primes.
+~~~~
+
+## Example
+
+Let's say you're finding the primes less than or equal to 10.
+
+- Write out 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, leaving them all unmarked.
+
+  ```text
+  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
+  ```
+
+- 2 is unmarked and is therefore a prime.
+  Mark 4, 6, 8 and 10 as "not prime".
+
+  ```text
+  2 3 [4] 5 [6] 7 [8] 9 [10]
+  ↑
+  ```
+
+- 3 is unmarked and is therefore a prime.
+  Mark 6 and 9 as not prime _(marking 6 is optional - as it's already been marked)_.
+
+  ```text
+  2 3 [4] 5 [6] 7 [8] [9] [10]
+    ↑
+  ```
+
+- 4 is marked as "not prime", so we skip over it.
+
+  ```text
+  2 3 [4] 5 [6] 7 [8] [9] [10]
+       ↑
+  ```
+
+- 5 is unmarked and is therefore a prime.
+  Mark 10 as not prime _(optional - as it's already been marked)_.
+
+  ```text
+  2 3 [4] 5 [6] 7 [8] [9] [10]
+          ↑
+  ```
+
+- 6 is marked as "not prime", so we skip over it.
+
+  ```text
+  2 3 [4] 5 [6] 7 [8] [9] [10]
+             ↑
+  ```
+
+- 7 is unmarked and is therefore a prime.
+
+  ```text
+  2 3 [4] 5 [6] 7 [8] [9] [10]
+                ↑
+  ```
+
+- 8 is marked as "not prime", so we skip over it.
+
+  ```text
+  2 3 [4] 5 [6] 7 [8] [9] [10]
+                   ↑
+  ```
+
+- 9 is marked as "not prime", so we skip over it.
+
+  ```text
+  2 3 [4] 5 [6] 7 [8] [9] [10]
+                       ↑
+  ```
+
+- 10 is marked as "not prime", so we stop as there are no more numbers to check.
+
+  ```text
+  2 3 [4] 5 [6] 7 [8] [9] [10]
+                           ↑
+  ```
+
+You've examined all the numbers and found that 2, 3, 5, and 7 are still unmarked, meaning they're the primes less than or equal to 10.
+
+## Source
+
+### Created by
+
+- @IanWhitney
+
+### Contributed to by
+
+- @ashleygwilliams
+- @ClashTheBunny
+- @coriolinus
+- @cwhakes
+- @efx
+- @ErikSchierboom
+- @IanWhitney
+- @lutostag
+- @mkantor
+- @nfiles
+- @petertseng
+- @rofrol
+- @stringparser
+- @xakon
+- @ZapAnton
+
+### Based on
+
+Sieve of Eratosthenes at Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_of_Eratosthenes