There's a pretty lively discourse on the internet about the various benchmarking systems, many of which are grounded in that discourse and have solid and nuance

There's a pretty lively discourse on the internet about the various benchmarking systems, many of which are grounded in that discourse and have solid and nuanced assumptions behind them. There's also an accepted way to measure performance -- eg. averaging hundreds or thousands of tests, meticulously documenting the environment. Unfortunately, neither of these seem to inform this claim to "actual" performance.