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> It seems to me that there are a lot of apples-to-oranges comparisons here?

So, the usual. :)

I stopped taking into account the benchmarks game completely after I saw apples-to-potatoes comparisons a few years back.

[igouy]

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/dont-jump-to-conclus...

Long ago the Ada program contributors told me -- It's only the same program if the same assembler is generated ;-)