You seem not to have considered the possibility that the authors may have simply made a mistake, unrelated to the origin of the programs. The authors presented

You seem not to have considered the possibility that the authors may have simply made a mistake, unrelated to the origin of the programs. The authors presented at an Oct 2017 conference. Archived benchmarks game web-pages from 2017 do not show the 10x fannkuch-redux differences that the authors report -- https://web.archive.org/web/20170918163900/http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/typescript.html https://web.archive.org/web/20170918163900/http://benchmarks...