PBP benchmarks

[CampGareth]

You must at least agree if some machine has a score of 1000 and another score of 4000, it is almost sure that the second is much faster This is what the benchmarks are all about.

I disagree. It all depends on what the test does. I could make a benchmark that rewards slower computers with better scores. A small tweak to a benchmark or compiler could result in 10x better results on one machine or 10x worse results on another. Geekbench don't want to tell us what their tests actually do so their results should be taken with a KFC family bucket of salt.

Unfortunately there's no gold standard in benchmarking. Phoronix is a reasonable bet since you can examine the source and compiled code but it's still prone to huge performance differences depending on compiler tweaks.