[BeeOnRope]

My read is different than yours.

I think Daniel uses those examples because they are actual examples from projects that he is or has been working on, and he's familiar with them and actually cares about them, and because it's at least a notch more realistic than something totally synthetic.

It seems like a very roundabout thing to use as a cry for attention for SIMDjson (the project I assume you are talking about), and I don't believe that's the purpose. I see no problem in linking the project.

Picking two random benchmarks and trying to extract any kind of more general IPC claim is not on solid ground, but I'm pretty sure Daniel will say he's not doing that: he's only sharing these two specific results. That's a style that reoccurs across several entries in that blog, however, so if it triggers (as it has me on occasion) you might want to look elsewhere.