Microsoft has been accused of "cheating" on SunSpider before because IE/Edge's dead-code elimination optimizations recognizes particular code patterns in SunSpi

Microsoft has been accused of "cheating" on SunSpider before because IE/Edge's dead-code elimination optimizations recognizes particular code patterns in SunSpider: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/11/lies-damned-lies-and-benchmarks-is-ie9-cheating-at-sunspider/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/11/lies-d... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1913102 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1913102