And yet you yourself said: > The CPUs you mentioned were simple micro-controllers, they were not designed for heavy processing tasks, they don't even have a br

And yet you yourself said: > The CPUs you mentioned were simple micro-controllers, they were not designed for heavy processing tasks, they don't even have a branch predictor which is something fundamental to have some significant performance. So it seems his comparison was fair, after all? Given that the article is about microcontrollers too.