That would be one strange benchmark then. It would have to be benchmarking something other than the code in question. Simple analogy: let's say you have a pro

That would be one strange benchmark then. It would have to be benchmarking something other than the code in question. Simple analogy: let's say you have a program that has 10 functions in it. You write a benchmark that exercises one of these and never (no, not once, never) calls the other functions. The other 9 are truly dead code. Would you expect the benchmark result to be different between that and a program that only included the one function being benchmarked?