Sure, but not macOS workloads. What most (all?) of these benchmarks fail to capture is the difference made by the specific optimizations for Apple's software st

Sure, but not macOS workloads. What most (all?) of these benchmarks fail to capture is the difference made by the specific optimizations for Apple's software stack. Things like the five times faster ARC retain/release cycle or the dedicated objc_msgSend branch predictor are a big deal when your software stack hits these hotspots constantly. The SPEC sample workloads won't.