[cashewchoo]

If they're thinking pure CPU benchmarking, prime95/mprime has several options, such as:

[this is from my recollection]

* completely in-register only, no caches. they warn an organic workload will never ever do this and not to do it if you're not confident in your cooling * somewhat more normal math-heavy workloads that don't do any IO but also do access the caches like a normal person * etc

The python benchmark might be fair, though? I wouldn't be surprised if the ARM chip on the pi is like, fast, but then when it came to doing something more holistic - like a bunch of python vm operations - something about the mac is more robust than the pi in a significant way.