[riffraff]

I'm sorry, I do not understand how this was obvious, I'll see if I can send pull requests.

Of course barebones platforms will be faster, but doing unnecessary work is a different thing.

[jsmeaton]

It's more obvious if you read the blog posts linked to each of the rounds (but not this one), since they describe some of the changes that were made to each framework test to bring them closer to parity.