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by pikrzyszto 1869 days ago
It's hard to reliably reproduce a cross-platform benchmark. They use different compilers, different compiler flags and do not show profiles. Also some compilers tend to be quite conservative in less-known environments.

http://www.brendangregg.com/ActiveBenchmarking/bonnie++.html provides an example how "the same benchmark" can measure a different thing on a different platform.